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  • Lucky timing is: being a white guy growing up in the 70s/80s America.

    Besides that, if you look at the company he started. It started selling books, but he always wanted to sell other stuff. His shareholder letters describe his vision from the very first one and it is consistent. It didn’t change over time. They company got lucky, they talk about prime being a fluke all the time. But on the other hand, the culture in the company was something that supported a fluke like that to bubble up through the idea pond.

    Any who, yea. I don’t care for the person that the media portrays him as today. But for his initial years I absolutely give him a lot of credit.

    I haven’t heard off Amazon being built on stolen ideas or usurping someone else’s company or being born with a silver spoon.

    Yes he was a white male in America in the 70s and has all the privilege associated with that, but there were like another 50 million in that category.















  • really@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonetiktok rule
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    1 year ago

    A few yards ago I would have said this was staged. But now I can totally believe it.

    Edit: was reading the first response in my inbox and wondering what the guy was talking about. Then reread my comment and noticed the typo. Leaving it up now because I don’t think without the typo my comment would have seen this level of engagement.



  • really@lemmy.worldtoAtheist Memes@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    I know we like to see things as black and white.

    But stuff is nuanced.

    We are talking about 1400 years ago. What was the norm in those times and how different is this from those norms? Were the things being preached better than the norms? If so, I think that’s progress.

    Right now, average age of marriage has been going up and is early 30s in the US. About a 100 years ago, it was early 20s/late teens. In some states the official age didn’t get part mid teens till recently.

    With that in mind, should we be judging the people of 1920s as advocates of child marriages?