You'd have to look to Syria, North Korea or Russia to find somebody as ruthless as Jeff.
He started up his business crowing "Hey, you can buy books SO much cheaper on AMAZON than bookstores, and no shipping!" Suddenly, Barnes and Noble and other book chains started to close. Thanks to weak DMCA laws intended to boost Internet companies, Amazon didn't even charge tax. Soon even used book shops couldn't compete. Bezos made sure that if buyers couldn't afford a NEW copy, a used or promo copy was available. Either way, HE made money. Authors of new books found themselves competing with every used copy sold and discarded.
That wasn't enough damage to publishers and authors. Amazon invented KINDLE, and put it on the front page of the site, flogging it day and night with bargain prices to hook people in. Why buy BOOKS that take up space when you can have a KINDLE? PS, you can buy bootleg dupe Kindle files on EBAY and we're so rich we won't even file takedowns on the sellers. Quantity, not quality!
AMAZON then set up ways for any idiot to digitize old books or upload badly written new junk. More competition for real authors, and more authors and good books lost in the debris. Bezos found a ready supply of vanity authors and grifters eager to take crumbs and let him have the big profits, just in return for being able to say "I'm an author."
Meanwhile Amazon was now selling anything and everything, sending more brick and mortar stores into bankruptcy. "Hey everyone, go to the store, try on the items, then buy from Amazon! Learn to be ruthless. It's strictly business!"
Bezos discovered it doesn't take talent to invent things, it just takes power to muscle in and take over. Bezos saw iTunes had a big chunk of music downloads. He carved out his own bloody chunk of the music biz with his Amazon downloads, and made sure to control the prices.
Netflix re-invented itself as a successful streaming company with new product? Monkey-face see monkey-face do; the bald baboon tossed money at everyone (including Woody Allen) to get his own high-profile Movie Mogul streaming AMAZON shows on the market.
Meanwhile, America's Mussolini saw businessman Trump became President. Hmm. Bezos moved to Washington, D.C. He made sure to buy a mansion BIGGER than Trump or the retired Obama. And who do you think might run for PRESIDENT, EMPEROR or FUHRER soon?
I leave it to paid journalists on big newspapers to ferret out many more of the sordid details of Mr. Businessman's rise to own an Evil Empire. I'm just noting some of the things the creep's done in the book and music world.
The new issue of Rolling Stone announced that helping to destroy the music business was just the beginning for Bozo Bezos. So, most musicians can't earn any money off their music? They have to tour or forget it? They make nickels and dimes from Spotify and iTunes streaming? TIME FOR AMERICA'S MUSSOLINI to MUSCLE IN:
That is the motto for this bald-headed bastard? It could be "I CAN'T GET ENOUGH."
If you're tired of loathing Putin, Kim Jung-Un, Manson, Mark David Chapman or Hitler...there's JEFF BEZOS. Arrogant. Rich. Nasty. Greedy. Mean. Uncharitable. Idea-stealing.
Watch out, Google. Watch out, Ebay. HE WANTS IT ALL.
And since he wants it ALL, watch out Caitlyn Jenner, he's just nuts enough to go after YOUR ASS, too.
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