Amazon owns us all
1 min readMay 5, 2020
Things are moving fast, which is weird because we are in a major economic slowdown. The consolidation of power, however, has picked up the pace, and we will now see tech platforms leverage the unprecedented power we have handed them over the past decade. We are a long way down the road from “Don’t be evil.” Even though it was Google that coined and then abandoned that powerful maxim, it is the conduct of another tech giant that is of grave and immediate concern.
On Monday, Tim Bray rage quit from his position as VP and Distinguished Engineer from Amazon Web Services. His blog post makes clear that the departure was brought about by Amazon’s increasingly hostile work environment….
