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Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud (www.windowscentral.com)
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A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 179 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Bezos is so out of touch it is stupid.

Is he out of touch or has he just recognized that 50% of the economic activity is already from the top 10% of the population?

I get the feeling the wealthy have just written off the bottom 90% of society and don't actually give a flying fuck if anything works for us or not. He knows his core sales will go to people who do have fiber at their doorstep.

Maybe we're the ones out of touch thinking they plan on having a place for us in this world at all.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even Ford, piece of utter feculence he was, understood that if you gave people money and time to spend it they'll give it right back to you and everyone gets to come up together.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was a PR stunt. Wages were being raised anyway, he just preempted what he knew was coming to make himself look good

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Next you're gonna tell me that Ford didn't actually invent the weekend, but was pressured by unions.

Or that tipped wages aren't meant to let the employees get a higher wage than they could at a fixed wage, but instead only benefit the business.

You and your crazy conspiracy theories. Now, if you're done being wrong, I have a bridge to purchase.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 61 points 1 day ago

Thats the plan, organize yourselves now before they do it for you