No, Donny. These Men Are Losers. |
Image Sources: Screenshot from The Big Lebowski. Photo of Zuckerberg by Xavier Lejeune. Photo of Bezos by Sgt. Adrian Cadiz. Photo of Musk from Office of Speaker Mike Johnson. Crude photoshop work done by Nathaniel St. Clair.
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Three of the wealthiest and most powerful men to ever exist. Yet beneath their towering tech empires lies a common truth: they are groveling losers.
Take Jeff Bezos, for instance. Occasionally the richest person on Earth—depending on stock market fluctuations and divorce settlements—Bezos built Amazon into an online shopping juggernaut, where everything is cheap and delivered with lightning speed by exploited workers. He also owns The Washington Post, which adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” at the beginning of Donald Trump’s first presidential term. This was both a clear jab at Trump’s authoritarian tendencies and a calculated appeal to thirsty Resistance liberals and Never-Trump conservatives. Bezos seemed to be trying to position himself as a “benevolent billionaire” in the general public’s eye, in contrast to Trump’s extravagant vulgarity.
Fast forward to Trump’s second term, and Bezos has done an about-face. He quashed The Washington Post editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, and the once-fiery slogan was swapped for the tepid, corporate-friendly “Riveting........