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I think it's more about the political influence Bezos might get by showing that he supports the established political system.


I would wager it is just that this is what Bezos believes is right.


What Jeff believes is right is what accrues to Jeff more power. The founders of Google, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer, Jobs and Wozniak, the early Sun people, they all made mistakes and might have done bad things. Generally I think people running businesses are doing so because they want to make a dent in the universe. I don't buy the idea that CEOs are sociopaths (which seems to be a common perception). But if you told me you believed Bezos was a sociopath I would suspect you were right.

I only worked there a couple years but I had more interaction with him than I would like (though he never chewed me out) and usually, I'm eager to get close to the CEO and learn what I can.


>Bezos was a sociopath

Can you elaborate, please, on why you feel this way?


You've quoted that so out of context it now has a different meaning.


What? I am not intending to morph the author's meaning. He said:

>If you told me you thought Bezo's was a sociopath I'd suspect you're right

How and what did I take out of context and what was the intended meaning that I transformed into something else?




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