Remember when Amazon VP @timbray quit in May? Since then, he's been building a much broader critique of Amazon's power, and how the sheer bigness of Amazon and other large companies are distorting politics, policies and labor markets.
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“I am not in some radical fringe because I think the wealth and power in the 21st century is overly concentrated,” @timbray says.
He says antitrust enforcement is “one of the most powerful political programs" to correct the power imbalances of inequality 2/
He says antitrust enforcement is “one of the most powerful political programs" to correct the power imbalances of inequality 2/
You have to understand, @timbray wasn't a VP in the way you may think. He was a Distinguished Engineer, an elite group revered not for running large orgs, but for their engineering brilliance. So his critique comes from someone whose thoughts carry great clout 3/
I was fascinating to learn that @timbray, while a "geeky geek," as his friend called him, is a polymath, reading Piketty and exploring heavy metal. And he grew up largely in Beirut, where politics "takes the very rare form of riots in the streets and incoming Israeli missiles" 4/
The story traces how he tried but ultimately was unable to contain his political activism inside Amazon and quit, and since has said the company should be broken up. There's a lot in the piece, please have a read. 5/ nytimes.com/2020/07/22/tec…
