Jeff Bezos’s fortune transforming him from a nerdy family man to a douchey horny guy with internet brain worms is a tremendously funny and depressing trajectory. - ThreadSky

normcharlatan.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Jeff Bezos’s fortune transforming him from a nerdy family man to a douchey horny guy with internet brain worms is a tremendously funny and depressing trajectory.

Reposted from Will Oremus

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos just emailed the paper's staff to announce a "change coming to our opinion pages."

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cartire.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also pretty much means none of us are immune to the effects of too much money.

It’s why I made the hard choice of maintaining as little wealth as possible.

athensgrease.bsky.social•1 day ago

someone at work was just telling me the other day how one of their family members went to Princeton with him and he was actually relatively normal at the time; it’s wild how badly becoming insanely rich (and immune from any consequences for anything, ever) can melt someone’s brain

tigermakers.bsky.social•1 day ago

The dude came up with online K-mart and now thinks he is one of the smartest people in the world.

tigermakers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, none of this would have been possible without Bezos utilizing America's shipping infrastructure and public roads.

athensgrease.bsky.social•1 day ago

I was telling that same coworker how visiting a fulfillment center in business school completely radicalized me lol

athensgrease.bsky.social•1 day ago

100% — he thinks he invented “being able to buy shit” lol https://bsky.app/profile/athensgrease.bsky.social/post/3lj3ocnj4sc2k

cinquinho.bsky.social•1 day ago

K-mart was better. They had layaway.

tigermakers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Plus you could buy drugs in the back office if you knew the manager.... allegedly.

stubobnumbers.bsky.social•1 day ago

They also had blue lights you could turn on.

uncle6.org•1 day ago

And an Icee machine.

cinquinho.bsky.social•1 day ago

hell yeah

scottfaldon.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a normie, I dream of being a billionaire so I could own a professional sports team and spending most of my time fly fishing. Actual billionaires dream of hoarding more billions.

athensgrease.bsky.social•1 day ago

totally agree; I would just travel and eat and drink and stay in nice hotels every day

strangernalps.bsky.social•1 day ago

Congrats to MattY

highgravity211.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don't these guys realize that they can use their money in like inventing new ways to make warhammer figurines instead of this?

bipolarbearband.bsky.social•1 day ago

‘You will write about personal liberty or GTFO.’

300ps.bsky.social•1 day ago

Henceforth the opinion pages will contain nothing but my opinions.

bigpapipopsicle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Becoming excessively wealthy is basically the business equivalent of CTE is what we're all learning. It's straight up brain damage.

chriscampy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cackling at this dickhead expecting a “hell yes” from his subordinates and receiving a no thanks, this shit sucks instead

cheerfulexgf.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think about $500 million is the amount you can hoard before you go insane, my only case study is Tom from Myspace

jamesossipov.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Tom was such a great guy.
He just made some cool thing, and then didn’t try to destroy civilization.

A regular Cincinnatus

cheerfulexgf.bsky.social•15 hours ago

He was my friend, ok he was everyone's friend but it still counts!

avaghy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds a lot like William Randolph Hearst.

sdbwarnedyou.bsky.social•1 day ago

I like the old school billionaires better: they just hoarded their money and let their nails grow and did their other degenerate shit and left us normal people the fuck alone.

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