[An inflection point for Techno-Bros billionaires maybe?]
An excerpt from a fascinating piece by Josh Marshall at TPM:
Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
"We talk a lot about a crisis of public trust in America today. But when we do we’re usually talking about Red America or what we might call Disaffected America — people lack trust in the press, in elections, in scientific or expert authority and big institutions.
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But there’s this other crisis of trust in institutions and people, rapidly catching up with it, that’s the province of Blue America. And Bezos, seemingly on his own not a terribly political person one way or another, has with this one decision stepped right into it, probably without even realizing it. Frankly, I am myself surprised by the intensity of the reaction. But now having seen it I think it makes perfect sense.
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...it’s a whose-side-are-you-on moment, with sides that transcend partisan politics as most people understand the term. Bezos has rung a bell I’m not sure he can unring."
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