What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

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Lire cet article, et comprendre comment et pourquoi nous en sommes là👇 Extraits: "The most common question I heard was “Why am I here?” "Why am I here?” asked the 1980s hair-metal singer. “Why am I here?” asked the ... 1/4 #Trump #Bezos #PeterThiel #Musk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... “These men no longer feel the need to change the world in order to succeed, because their success is guaranteed, no matter what happens to the rest of us”

this is a very good essay on who our oligarchs have become and what it means www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"When Peter Thiel said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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"[Bezos] did not say 'I’m so sorry.' He did not say 'Do you need anything?' Instead, he made a face, and in an instant, an aide came and whisked him away. When presented with the opportunity for empathy, even performative empathy, he chose escape."

The Atlantic The world’s richest men “have clearly left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters. By Noah Hawley Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Interesting and actually terrifying article about the untouchable uber rich. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Filmmaker Noah Hawley's account of being invited to Jeff Bezos' private retreat in 2018 is as delicious and insightful as promised.

This is hilarious - article writer Noah Hawley and his family came down with foot and mouth disease at Jeff Bezos' rich person's retreat 😂 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

“When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.” A look at the mendacity of the super-rich

“Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves.”. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Great article.

Noah Hawley: "For them, the word failure has ceased to mean anything. This sense of invulnerability has deep psychological ramifications. If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all"

These billionaires truly believe that they're above the law and any negative consequences. They can buy their way out of trouble. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

There are clues to rock-bottom for Bezos in this must-read piece: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Short but brutal article, expounding on the principle of "#billionaires aren't like us": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/ The pull quote that really slammed into me: > When Peter Thiel said, “I no longer believe that freedom and […]

From the excellent Noah Hawley www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

"It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Ich hoffe, dieser Artikel ist noch frei lesbar, in dem die Aussetzung der Gegenseitigkeit im Extrem beschrieben wird. Gesetze sind über Strafverfolgung ja immer noch mit Gegenseitigkeit verbunden, aber nur sehr vermittelt und mit Aufwand verbunden. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Reading this, I think of that @Merman_Melville line about being a billionaire. "In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day". www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The world’s richest men “have clearly left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat:

Bezos is awful!

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"And yet, looking around at faces I had only ever seen in a magazine or on-screen, I had an unsettling revelation: This is the hubris of accomplishment. To be declared a genius at one thing is to begin to believe you are a genius at everything." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

In the world of the #superrich, #empathyisasin because it is the ONLY thing that could possibly threaten them. But we've handed the keys to America over to men & women who are unreachable in that regard. And to whom we do not exist. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

" [...] although today’s billionaires are clearly manipulating society to maximize their own profit, something else is also happening—a disassociation from the reality of cause and effect, from meaning and history." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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This is why it is only a net good for them to leave your state. They will never use their wealth to do anyone any good.

"Bezos and two of the world’s other richest men—Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—have clearly left the world of consequences behind. They float in a sensory-deprivation tank the size of the planet, in which their actions are only ever judged by themselves."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." William Gibson, Count Zero

This article offers some insight into why I’m not voting for a billionaire. Ever. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

For Altman, Musk, or Zuckerberg a fine is the cost of doing business. Why design tech with people over profit? Noah Hawley's essay on billionaire consequence-free reality makes the case: no real consequences means regulation isn't optional #TechRegulation #FCTC www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Good read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...