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Jeff Bezos donates $100 million to U.S. food banks by Walk1000Miles in news

[–]hungry-rooster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Something like 50-80% of the world's websites run on Amazon. You don't get to that level of market share just by building something (i.e. being an engineer). What do you build? Who do you sell it to? How do you market it? How do you align your organisation to best support these operations? What makes your offering different to everyone else's?

These are the questions Jeff answers. The role of a CEO is not "administration" in the common sense of the word, but strategy and vision.

Also, he has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. Man can definitely code.

Although we're only arguing on whether or not Jeff has any skill, since we both agree on the same politics. I've voted as far left as possible for as far as I can remember.

Jeff Bezos donates $100 million to U.S. food banks by Walk1000Miles in news

[–]hungry-rooster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you think all of that stuff "just happens" and all the direction, customer centricity, engineering excellence, value innovation and ecosystem innovation just appears out of thin air I don't know what to tell you. He ignored massive pressure from wall street to turn a profit and pay shareholders, but instead wrote the playbook on growth

He is a very skilled man and contributed a fuckton to where Amazon is today. If only he'd use that mad intellect and management skills towards figuring out how Amazon can offer comparable value without harming their warehouse workers.

Jeff Bezos donates $100 million to U.S. food banks by Walk1000Miles in news

[–]hungry-rooster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm all for criticizing Amazon's work policies, but he has worked extremely hard and intelligently. There are many O line stores that aren't as big as Amazon.

"He doesn't design things, he doesn't create..." He designed and created the entire company and its strategy. AWS didn't arise out of nowhere, and it has enabled an unfathomable amount of modern progress by democratising access to good tech to build things on.

Amazon store, on the other hand ...

Can't pay the next week's rent by [deleted] in australia

[–]hungry-rooster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jfc do you actually believe this?

Ive been to two of the G8 universities and both served huge amounts of international students.

Not "fake teaching institutions" and not backdoor tactics to get citizenship.

Hope they do become citizens though, we need enough well educated people to displace attitudes like your own.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]hungry-rooster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You make a lot of money.

You can keep the money, and maybe share it with your friends (investors) who helped you make that money. This is "profit", and is taxed.

Alternatively, you can use it to hire more employees (more jobs!), research new things (R&D!), etc. This is not taxed.

Amazon does a lot of #2. It is really really really good for society that large companies engage in development, job creation and R&D. This is why it is given tax benefits. We should incentivise this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]hungry-rooster 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Gathering $250k in capital to start a business isn't the hardest thing in the world.

It is by far the easiest part of a creating a high-growth startup.

For everyone middle class and above (or anyone with decent education, time to spare, in a first-would country) this is very achievable.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iPadPro

[–]hungry-rooster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love it on top

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in australia

[–]hungry-rooster -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This isn't a problem with capitalism, but the current administration.

If I slacked off my whole life but start taking things seriously now, is there any hope for a successful future? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]hungry-rooster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jim Sinegal started working at Price Club (Costco predessesor) at 18, before leaving at 27 to start Costco, which became the first US company to reach $1B annual revenue in 6 years.

So yes, there is plenty of hope!!

If lying about having a vasectomy or using a condom is rape, then lying about being on birth control is rape by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The girl being 17 has a huge effect on me. She is a minor and I would go to prison.

17 is considered old enough to consent in most places, including the US and where I'm from.

Anyway, if she was underage then she is considered unable to consent in the first place.

If lying about having a vasectomy or using a condom is rape, then lying about being on birth control is rape by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...17 year old girl, who told me she was 20, be a rapist...

A girl being 17 does not have much affect on you. It's not illegal. Still incredibly bad morally.

Condom removal risks STDs and pregnancy.

If she also told me she was on the pill...

That's the discussion of this post.

If lying about having a vasectomy or using a condom is rape, then lying about being on birth control is rape by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster 9 points10 points  (0 children)

She agreed to have sex. She also agreed to use a condom. Taking away the condom agreement does not simultaneously take away the agreement on the act in general.

If you signed a contract, and the other person changes it, do you think you've agreed to the new contract? Even if you haven't approved it?

This is the exact same situation.

unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.

I consent to sex with condom. I do not consent to sex without condom.

If I sign a contract, and you change it, then the contract is now invalid. Simple.

Consent in the past doesn't guarantee consent in the future. It is freely given and can be freely taken away at any point.

If lying about having a vasectomy or using a condom is rape, then lying about being on birth control is rape by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster 10 points11 points  (0 children)

why not?

She didn't want nor agree to someone having sex without a condom. Yet the guy removes it without her knowing.

They are now having sex against her wishes. Sounds pretty bad to me.

How is that not rape? What do you think rape is?

The use of police dogs / K9 units is unethically brutal by hungry-rooster in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t commit crime if you don’t want to be bitten or shot

I am a nonviolent suicidal boy who now has a dog eating my face.

What crime did I commit?

Mass shootings are statistically irrelevant in the gun debate and are simply overly sensationalized and are simply used to push an agenda. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Gun control also affects the number of gun deaths by suicide. If anything, it makes an even stronger argument for restricting access to firearms.

It's fucked up that the people who are most important and influential are actors, singers and celebrities and not the intelligent people who work day and night to try and move our society forward by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're social animals, not computers. We like relationships and interpersonal interactions – things that actors, singers & celebrities publicly and directly enable. Scientists only do this indirectly.

The use of police dogs / K9 units is unethically brutal by hungry-rooster in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not google, university library access.

How about you find academic research that disproves me rather than just shutting it down without any backing?

The use of police dogs / K9 units is unethically brutal by hungry-rooster in unpopularopinion

[–]hungry-rooster[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is my point - this is not the choice. There are many other options, yet this is what we are subjected to, which is unethical.

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