Saturday, May 23, 2020

12 Midnight Again, It Must Be Another One of Those Times I Agree With Bill Maher - He Says Jeff Bezos and Amazon Are ‘Anti-Capitalist'

“Real Time With Bill Maher” was off last week, and Maher returned on Friday by taking a big swing at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. This rant, which came as part of the New Rules segment at the end of the show, was prompted by the news that Bezos is on pace to become the first-ever member of the trillionaire class. 
“New rule: you can’t have so much money that my computer’s spellcheck doesn’t know what to call you. Jeff Bezos is poised to be the world’s first trillionaire, the headline says. Even my phone was like, ‘That can’t be right,'” Maher quipped. (Sidenote: the spellcheck in my web browser also doesn’t think “trillionaire” is a word.)
“We now live in an age not of innovation but of domination,” he continued. “Startups are in a 13-year slump and financing is down 22% from eight years ago because, in the online marketplace, Amazon has become the only game in town. And that was before an event happened that made everyone stay home and order everything online. Yeah, I mean, predictably, once the virus hit and America locked itself upstairs like a babysitter hiding from a slasher, sure, of course, the rest of the economy cratered. But Amazon’s stock price is up 25%. That’s what I call asymptomatic.” 
Then Maher got serious: “If we don’t do something, we’re gonna come out of our holes and discover that there’s only one store and it knows where you live.” Now there’s the question, what can be done about it? Maher’s got some ideas. 
“You might be surprised to learn that Elizabeth Warren had a plan to break up Amazon. And I say let’s go for it,” Maher said. “Like Sen. Warren, I’m a capitalist to my core, but when a company gets so big it smothers all competitors in the crib, that’s anti-capitalist. Like when Amazon destroyed the startup Diapers.com by cutting Amazon’s own diaper costs below cost. By one estimate, Bezos lost $100 million in his quest to corner the online diaper market. But he owns it now. Which raises the question: What is wrong with this man?"

6 comments:

Anonymous said...


If you follow Diana West or read her books (Death of the Grown-up, The Red Thread etc.) this may be of interest as the effort to purge or ban her writing continues:

I have no knowledge of that tho record shows his smears of my work. C Hitchens wrote: "When I was hired as Washington editor for a...London Sunday paper, he rang up the management to warn them that I was a dangerous and wicked person and to advise them strongly to get rid of me."


I am sorry to hear that Epoch Times has ditched you for or because of
Black. They are going to lose their credibility it appears that true media outlets are being coopted.

https://twitter.com/diana_west_/status/1264196153064775681

Anonymous said...

By its own definition, Facebook is un-American. Oversight Board Will Use International Speech Norms to Police Americans https://breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/22/facebook-oversight-board-will-use-international-speech-norms-to-police-americans/
via @BreitbartNews

https://twitter.com/diana_west_/status/1264270134463660039

Anonymous said...

Exclusive: Project leader Prof Hill warns against 'over-promising', as vaccine success is far from guaranteed


https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1264297312446287872

revereridesagain said...

If Liar-watha Warren is "capitalist to the core" then I'm the next female Pope.

Support to Diana West! Another voice of truth the Left wants to silence. But I don't understand what those posts are about.

Anonymous said...

RRA - The posts regarding Diana West involved disputes of facts she documented in her book, The Red Thread through extensive footnotes.
Diana West and a host of others — including illustrious authors M. Stanton Evans and Vladimir Bukovsky — defend her book, "American Betrayal," against a wave of calumnious charges and vicious personal attacks with another publication
"The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' from the Book-Burners 1st Edition "
The dispute is a couple years on already and apparently extending to this recent ban by Epoch Times.

Pastorius said...

Anonymous,
Who is "Black"?

Is she talking about Conrad Black?