There is a ruler — Jeff Bezos, even though he has stepped down as CEO — and there are lesser officials, not just senior vice presidents but fulfillment center managers, human resources employees, and the heads of Amazon’s delivery service partners, which, while legally separate entities, pop up in Amazon’s wake and often exist solely to carry out its delivery needs, the separation so fictitious that many of their drivers wear Amazon-branded uniforms and drive Amazon-branded vans.
The recent announcement that Jeff Bezos is donating the bulk of his vast fortune to charity should be recognizable to everyone at this point: it’s a tried-and-true scheme to rehabilitate his public image while avoiding paying taxes.
President Petros tal vid tillsättandet av Colomias nya ambassadör i Washington. Claro, no se puede ocultar la importancia de este cargo en el país que está determinando, en mayor medida, los destinos de Colombia desde hace bastantes décadas...
V. Bernau, H. Martin-Jung, and T. Riedl. sueddeutsche.de, (05.01.2011 2011)Parallele Printversion: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5./6. Jan. 2011, S. 18 u.d.T.: Facebook gegen den Rest der Welt.