<story><title>Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peakaboo</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how to put this in a polite way... Let&amp;#x27;s just say your brain seems to have gotten too much TV entertainment.&lt;p&gt;These billionaires made many billions on covid, while you got a 1400 dollar check so you could survive. These billionaires pay their workers minimum wage every day. People can&amp;#x27;t get toilet breaks at amazon warehouse without being harassed.&lt;p&gt;This guy is a world class parasite. There is nothing &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; about what he is doing. We are not with him. He doesn&amp;#x27;t care about any of us.</text></item><item><author>Zelphyr</author><text>All the critics lobbing cynicism against Bezos, Branson, and Musk saying, in essence, that their money is better spent here at home reminds me of a wonderful scene from The West Wing when one character asks why we have to go to Mars:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;Cause it&amp;#x27;s next. For we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill, and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on the timeline of exploration, and this is what&amp;#x27;s next.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t care that these billionaires are spending their money on vacations to orbit. It&amp;#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pb7</author><text>&amp;gt;These billionaires made many billions on covid, while you got a 1400 dollar check so you could survive.&lt;p&gt;They made billions from excellent businesses on which the world relied during a time of crisis. What would people have done without the likes of Amazon and fast delivery of nearly everything?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;These billionaires pay their workers minimum wage every day.&lt;p&gt;No one makes minimum wage at Amazon.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;People can&amp;#x27;t get toilet breaks at amazon warehouse without being harassed.&lt;p&gt;Citation needed. Individuals out of a population of 1,000,000 diverse people choosing to do things is not a trend.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;He doesn&amp;#x27;t care about any of us.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t care about him either. It&amp;#x27;s a business transaction that benefits both parties, nothing more, nothing less.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/20/media/van-jones-bezos-100-million/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peakaboo</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know how to put this in a polite way... Let&amp;#x27;s just say your brain seems to have gotten too much TV entertainment.&lt;p&gt;These billionaires made many billions on covid, while you got a 1400 dollar check so you could survive. These billionaires pay their workers minimum wage every day. People can&amp;#x27;t get toilet breaks at amazon warehouse without being harassed.&lt;p&gt;This guy is a world class parasite. There is nothing &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; about what he is doing. We are not with him. He doesn&amp;#x27;t care about any of us.</text></item><item><author>Zelphyr</author><text>All the critics lobbing cynicism against Bezos, Branson, and Musk saying, in essence, that their money is better spent here at home reminds me of a wonderful scene from The West Wing when one character asks why we have to go to Mars:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;#x27;Cause it&amp;#x27;s next. For we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill, and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean, and we pioneered the West, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on the timeline of exploration, and this is what&amp;#x27;s next.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t care that these billionaires are spending their money on vacations to orbit. It&amp;#x27;s how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s next.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TechBro8615</author><text>They also caused me exactly zero suffering. In fact, they actually helped me since I was able to order from Amazon throughout the lockdown.</text></comment>