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Three Reasons Everyone Is Afraid of Jeff Bezos
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/08/three-reasons-everyone-afraid-jeff-bezos/68012/
Amazon recently landed a $600 million contract to build an entire cloud computing system for the CIA. The company is reportedly staffing up on engineers with top secret clearance. Does Jeff Bezos have top secret clearance? That would be something that the Washington Post might want to think about, considering how much reporting their journalists have done on the topic. A huge CIA contractor is now Dana Priest's boss. Think about that.
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It's hard to separate Bezos the man from Bezos the Amazon entrepreneur. Amazon factories, for example, are widely known as brutal places to work. "Instead of paying for air-conditioning at some Pennsylvania warehouses, Amazon had just stationed paramedics outside to take the inevitably heat-stressed workers to the hospital," explains Alec MacGillis at The New Republic.
And there are no sacred cows in Bezos's world "disruptor" is a label he obviously embraces. MacGillis explains that Amazon's success comes from ravaging industries with speed and efficiency:
The company that made him one of the richest men in the world has had a less than benign impact on our nation. It has devastated the publishing industry, from the big presses to the small booksellers. It has exacerbated the growth of the low-wage economy, to the point where the president feels the need to celebrate an increase in warehouse jobs that will pay barely more than minimum wage.
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