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diff --git a/content/blog/2024/bezos-washington-post.md b/content/blog/2024/bezos-washington-post.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89fda6e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/bezos-washington-post.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ ++++ +title = "Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-10-26T21:17:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +image_dir = "blog/images" +image_max_width = 600 +Abstract = "Washington Post was a small purchase" +Listening = "Moonspell - Irreligious" ++++ + +Tech billionaire is being evil again. +This time [Jeff Bezos kills Washington Post's endorsement for one of the US presidential candidates.](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279602/jeff-bezos-washington-post-kamala-harris-endorsement) +It doesn't matter which one, but people are canceling their subscriptions. +But, let's face it. +He is too rich to care. + +Bezoss bought Washington Post [a decade ago](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html) for 250000000 USD (25 million). +This seems a lot but almost the entire human race, but not for him. + +At the moment of buying the gazette, his net worth was 25000000 (25,2 billion). +It was less than 1% of his net worth. + +If you bought the entire Austen Powers collection on Amazon, it would cost you 13,7USD (I lie here, as this is today price). +For you to care as much as Bezos about buying Washington Post, you would need to have just shy of 1370USD. +In 2013. + +But in 2024, his net worth grew to 211000000000 (211 billion). +Are you 10x richer than 10 years ago? +But then, if you bought that BluRay 10 years ago for that 13,7USD, you would now 13700SD. +Would you even care about that BluRay? +I'm guessing you have already given it _for free_ to someone. + +So, he would not notice if Washington Post died today, he would not notice. +But what are some other things he owns some stake in, that you can stop using? + +{{< image forced_width="250" class="pull-right" alt="Headshot of a bold, white man with a scar. This is a character Dr Evil from Austen Powers series of movies" file="dr-evil.jpg" >}} +Jeff Bezos, circa 2025 +{{< /image >}} + +- Amazon +- Whole Foods +- Zappos +- Twitch +- MGM +- Audible +- IMDB +- Ring +- Eero +- Goodreads +- ComiXology +- Cloud9 IDE +- Antropic +- Blue Origin +- Book Depisitory +- Airbnb +- Workday |