Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
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Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos
The new strategy would result in years of tension between various divisions, between Amazon and its suppliers, and between industry trade groups and the company. Bezos didn’t care about any of that, as long as it offered more choices to customers and, in the process, gave Amazon a greater selection of products. With a single brilliant and nonintuit
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If massive amounts of data and computational power are being employed to guide or constrain our decisions, then how much can we trust the authenticity of our choices, and how can we trust each other?