Amazon has always been about breaking rules and hurting others to help themselves.
According to Bezos:
“We found a loophole. Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn’t have to receive ten books, you only had to order ten books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, ‘Sorry, but we’re out of the lichen book.’”
They took advantage of brick and mortar booksellers in the beginning, eagerly taking advantage of their good will.
The world is currently run by sociopaths. I don’t say that as some fun little insult, the owner class is full of people that look at society and think “how can I find a loophole. How can I take advantage of someone’s good will when they can’t find an obscure book on lichen to help me. Maybe if I make them feel bad I can get one over on them.”
CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964
Jeffrey, Jeffrey Bezos
CEO, entrepreneur
Born in 1964
Jeffrey, Jeffrey BezosCome on, Jeffrey, you can do it
Pave the way, put your back into it
Tell us why, show us how
Look at where you came from, look at you now
Zuckerberg and Gates and Buffett
Amateurs can fuckin’ suck it
Fuck their wives, drink their blood
Come on, Jeff, get 'em!he should do some stuff with between the buried and me
Now they’re straight up destroying rare books
Original Amazon was such shit that I don’t understand how it caught on. Who just buys a book without reading any of it at all first? How do you know if it’s any good? It’s like people who save themselves for marriage.
I first used it as a place to sell my used college textbooks.
They used to deal a lot in used books. Bought a lot of my textbooks there.
Idk if that’s still a thing
Honestly, I was in early on buying books from Amazon. It was one of very few places I could find affordable college text books in the early 00s
Like I tend to, but I’m also one of those guys who broadly sticks to one or two authors and weird imported books on top of that. You try finding Youjo Senki and Metro 2033 at a bookstore or even library in my region, because I’ve fucken tried.
