You may have read today about how Jeff Bezos, the third-richest man in America, announced to the staff of the Washington Post, which he owns, that he is once again meddling with its editorial direction.
"I am of America" Bezos reportedly announced to Washington Post staffers with the eloquence we have come to equate with the nation's hyperwealthy genius class, adding that he is also "for America, and proud to be so.”
Bezos of America has been thinking some deep thoughts. "A big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else," he informed Post staffers. "Freedom is ethical," he mused, sounding like a towering political philosopher and not at all like a sociopathic vampire who feeds off warehouse-sized batteries of human labor. "It minimizes coercion."
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