Darkblue

I would call 4 flowers hardly a 'bouquet' :D

Don't diminish his work? The world could easily do with Amazon, or with an alternative/competitors/etc.

So Bezos himself is irrelevant in the discussion about important leaders. He wishes he was in that group.

To be fair, his "JC vs Great man" reply was funny. Not enough, but funny.

Exactly. Same here. I only see Reddit via Google searches.

Both definitions of free market (because regulations are never watertight), and the current system, result in the same current oligopily. So okay, maybe you can argue the semantics, the point remains: shouting for 'free market' does not solve the inherent, systemic issue of our current situation.

They won't, because greed doesn't get punished. Even worse, the law protects money. And the sociopaths/narcissists/psychos are the ones getting rich (of course) and the don't have empathy, care, or believe in 'fair'.

Capitalism = free market. Unfortunately. The current system works perfectly. It is not sustainable and the rich get corrupted more and more, but that's capitalism for ya.

Fair? What's that? That doesn't exist in nature or in greedy man. Fair is a societal construct. Paper beats rock, money beats fair.

I hope so too that 99% is way too high.

And I understand your wish for tougher enforcement. Studies do show that tougher punishments do not lead to less crime (even worse, the severity of crime increases since you get the max punishment anyway), so that is something to take into account. But I understand that people want an end to the low accountability of one's actions.

"who only care about themselves."

To be fair, this is true of 99% (or whatever high percentage) of people.

Ah, I see. Thanks for taking the time to explain!

The spoiler could be handy if people keep asking you questions like I did.

Okay, I'll bite:

Why are you putting a by-nc-sa 4.0 copyright disclaimer in your posts? Does that actually limit/grant anything?

Serious question, I don't understand.

Why say "unalive" here on lemmy?