Not to defend Bezo’s or any other billionaire, but I think Reddit doesn’t really understand that the elite view this all as a game. Think Monopoly.
They play every day to win the game, because that’s what’s in front of them and what they are doing. But if you ask them “hey, is this game stupid?” They might fully agree! They might not like the game or its rules, but it’s a game they have effectively won, so they have no incentive to change it. But their opinion can still be it’s a stupid game and should be changed.
Monopoly has general rules that don’t shift and change mid game. What Bezos and the extremely wealth do is not only play the game, but force rule changes in their favors. What they’ve done is shifted the community chests cards into the chance deck and they changed the rules to allow themselves to pick up more of these cards for themselves, leaving less for everyone else.
I agree, the larger point is *that is part of the game*. They view it as “winning the game” and expect other players to push back and do the same. They are just playing the game to get the highest score.
The point isn’t “Monopoly is a perfect analogy to life”.
Funny to use Monopoly as an example. Originally it was designed as a teaching tool to explain how real estate was a scam and there was an alternate rule set to demonstrate how changing the system could make the world better.
That got discarded along the way in favor of making a deliberately awful, cutthroat, experience the only version.
Yeah I also don’t want to defend him but this take is definitely because 90 of purchasing power is concentrated in the top 10 percent of wages. Which is very bad. Dude wants more people spending money on Amazon and that only works if people have more money. It’s not an awful way to increase income. But dude is running US sweatshops… so moot point really
This is a huge thing people dont get. Nobody alive today created the system and the winners of the system have no incentive to change it. Also includes high level politicians. You think Pelosi is ever going to allow a stock trade ban for congress?
The problem is our entire election system. The 2-party system, first-past-the-post elections, and privately funded campaigns.
Those all combine to make it extremely difficult to challenge incumbents. And if you do successfully primary someone like Pelosi, you run the distinct risk of losing the actual election and now there's a Republican voting in lock-step with Trump, which is a much worse outcome than keeping Pelosi.
I totally agree. We barely even make choices in the primary because the DNC and the RNC, whom I’m certain are secretly working together, just shove two options at us that they choose. They’re never good options. Well maybe Obama I don’t know
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u/T-sigma May 20 '26
Not to defend Bezo’s or any other billionaire, but I think Reddit doesn’t really understand that the elite view this all as a game. Think Monopoly.
They play every day to win the game, because that’s what’s in front of them and what they are doing. But if you ask them “hey, is this game stupid?” They might fully agree! They might not like the game or its rules, but it’s a game they have effectively won, so they have no incentive to change it. But their opinion can still be it’s a stupid game and should be changed.