jeff bezos is a complex character. he's a ceo as well as an investor, but in 2013, he personally acquired the washington post. one of the most prestigious newspapers in the u. s. ah, step by step. the amazon empire extends its grip on the world. he really hit amazon and this point represents the transformation of the american economy. i mean, you know, the old saying when i 1st came the street and kind of back in the day was what's good for gm is good for the country today. that's largely amazon as largest market cap company it's, it's greatly intertwined with the entire american global economy. amazon essentially controls the marketplace. it's not really a market, it's a private arena. amazon sets the rules. it gives the side which companies get the best spots which companies rank in the search rankings. who can even be there, what they're allowed to sell, how they can communicate with their customers, what they have to pay in order to be part of it. the old saying is, if it walks like a duck quacked like a duck, it's

today, stewart brand, its founder, has a very rich friend, jeff bezos. me affinity between hippies and wall street stop here. ah, jeff basis is a libertarian, advocating for small government, he values complete, entrepreneurial freedom, unimpeded by laws and regulations. the amazon burned off the social vision that animated so many in the 1900 sixty's, the hope of a better world through consumption through interconnected information systems. that's gone. this is gone for the consumers of amazon, and it's gone along with my local bookstores. it's gone along with my local shops, it's gone. the civic world is not something that i see amazon carrying about at all . and i think that's a great shame. i think it's picked up on one on one of the core elements of the horse catalogue. but it's lost, whatever, civic and vision animated the catalog. and that's a great shame. me the my name is alex, i'm long shribel. fish. and i was good morning to be don't like fish financial to charlotte. when did all by the side seat and young august 2000 if by on that so in that

and then jeff bezos started to report earnings finally. and now he's one of the richest men in the world so that everyone thinks their jeff bezos and everyone thinks they have the next amazon. but it guess what? there's probably not going to be more than one, jeff bezos with amazon. yeah, there can certainly be a whole nasdaq full of thousands of them and maybe just losing money means losing money. right. and the article does bring up amazon and say that everybody tries to be amazon, and that's how they explain to their investors the, you know, the losses. but during this period of high inflation, they're starting to really question whether or not this whole business model of ponds economics as possible. and he also points out that the, the way these companies, these ponzi companies are going to have to grow, their profits is actually to shrink not to grow. and that's the opposite of what these sort of investors want. he writes that now i'm not saying peloton which he points out as being their stock prices down 75 percent from an all time

jeff bezos is facing strong states mer. social protections are especially important and where employees have more labor, right? if we'll knock them if you don't fall 8 of them august as plans are built for the last 5 years. verde the main german union has been organizing strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses. i am for dr. young. i spoke heights in the 4th amendment. i gave him the workers are mainly asking for wage increases. thanks to these mobilizations, the leipzig warehouse workers have successfully increased their wages by 11.2 percent in the last 5 years. that there's more dollars that goes april 2018. the major german media group axle springer is about to award basil such prize for the most innovative person of the year dirty has called on workers from all over europe to come and protest in front of the building. standing alongside the germans today are polish, italian, and french workers. there are 1000 strong. welcome to berlin. thanks. it's great to be here today and was, is employing 566000 people. you kn

with will, jeff bezos you is this money to counter a less than accommodating europe? in 2017, for the 1st time the european commission decided to attack the company, margaret vest, hagar, european commissioner for competition sanctioned amazon for its tax management. and the commission has today adopted a decision that i, my sons tax benefits ah, a legal and i. e. u state aid rules. a tax ruling granted by luxemburg has reduced emerson's tax bill in more than 8 years between may 2006 and june 2014. it was not justified. amazon now has to repay the tax benefit worth around $250000000.00 euros plus interest. amazon paid the 250000000, but luxembourg appealed the decision. not all states endorsed the commissioner's approach, nor to the also court other measures that promote tax furnace the thing with with amazon, and we know that from the tax case it is that you don't necessarily make profits, but you create value. so you create value on the stock exchange, but you don't make profit in your business. so people make money by buying and selling stocks instead of making mon

david: the jeff bezos fortune. he is giving away money, his former wife is giving away money. is that a model? darren: no other country in the world has the diversity of ways of giving as we do in the united states. i celebrate every time a new foundation is created in whatever form. david: the united states in the early part of the 20th century and then in the mid part of the 20th century welcomed people like john deere d rockefeller and henry ford, set up foundations where they would take their staff or other assets and then the foundation would be coming to some extent, controlled for a while by families. eventually, families would not be controlled. henry ford famously got off the foundation board many decades ago because he wasn't happy with the ford foundation. you have reengaged the ford family. was that hard to do? darren: it is true that he was happy about a lot of the work of the ford foundation but he was unhappy. he was unhappy because the work that we did in the american south to advance integration and to support efforts to deem the legal discriminatory practices

david: the jeff bezos fortune. he is giving away money. his former wife is giving away money in different ways. is that a new model? darren: no country in the world has the diversity of ways of giving as we do in the united states. so, i celebrate every time a new foundation is created in whatever form. ♪ david: in the united states in the early part of the 20th century in the mid part of the 20th century, wealthy people all set up foundations where they would take their stock or other assets and put in foundation would be to some extent controlled for a while by families, but then eventually the families would not be in control. in the ford foundation, henry ford famously got off the board many decades ago because he was not happy it was said with the ford foundation. now you have reengaged the ford family. was it hard to do? darren: henry ford the second left the board in 1976. it is true he was unhappy with the work of the ford foundation. he was unhappy because the work that we did in the american south to advance integration and to

he mentioned the two terrific ones like what jeff bezos is doing as well as mckenzie scott. all of these are part of the landscape of philanthropic pluralism, which we should celebrate. no country in world has the diversity in ways of giving that we do in the united states. i celebrate every time a new foundation is created in whatever form. david: let's suppose you are an average person. why should you want to give away money? darren: some of the best philanthropists in this country are small donors. they understand what it is like to work really hard and for many of them, they don't have a lot of disposable income and yet they give to their church. they give to their food pantry. they give to their homeless shelter. that is because any this country, there is a civic imperative of the individual to do what he or she can to make a difference in improving our community. i celebrate those small impactful donors. i also worry that for many wealthy people, the idea of giving often is not driven by a sense of just making a difference but it is making a difference with strings att

richard branson and elon musk and jeff bezos. let's get ready to rumble. >> elon musk was the first out of the gate. launched with space-x. >> the guy even launched a car. the tesla roadster into orbit. >> the aliens arrive. a man gwen in a convertible? they will think we were awesome. >> elon musk's lead evaporated when richard branson and jeff bezos joined manned missions to space. >> it looked like bezos would be the first into space. branson was like good for you. but i will go 9 days earlier: if you listen closely you can hear bezos breaking everything in his billion dollars office. >> [screaming]. >> branson space ship 2 rockets to the stars. branson the first billionaire in space. >> [inaudible]. >> not quite one small step, but it will do. you would think a billionaire could hire better writers. 9 days later bezos the second billionaire in space. the choices that bezos made to go with him on his main voyage in space a little odd. an 18-year-old physics student from the netherlands. 82-year-old female astronaut who was nev

this pledge is signed by jeff bezos. it does not seem to have stopped him from mistreating his warehouse workers. amy: one of your chapters in your book "davos man," taxes, taxes, taxes, the rest is b.s. where did the quote come from? >> this young dutch academic showing up at davos first first time, horrified everyone is talking about philanthropy, talking about when/when solutions, talking about how workers have to train themselves to realist opportunities. these are the supposed solutions to inequality. everythi except for the most obvious thing and he says it is like i met a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to talk about water. the remarkable thing, that moment when viral, the remarkable thing, the guy was running that panel, guy ne edward who is thaeditor of "time magazine" recently purchased by marc benioff, he turns to gene goodall and says, what is it about us as a species that we cannot solve these problems? as if it is some sort of deficiency without species, while letting off the hook all of the p

jeff bezos: we've been working on this lander for three years. michael: and amazon founder, jeff bezos, is also developing rockets to carry humans into space and spacecraft to deliver cargo to the moon. jeff: we have here as an example, a very large rover and by the way, even though that's a large rover, this vehicle can land four of them simultaneously on the surface of the moon. brad: it isn't just spacex. there's other companies like blue origin coming online as well, private companies and smaller groups in australia, or rocket labs in new zealand, for instance, that is all making that cost cheaper. i like to think of it's like airplane travel. we spent the longest time having one costly airline, but now we have a bunch of budget carriers that are making it effective. adam: we live on this little dot and what's out there is just massive, and i wanna explore what's out there and see it. michael: australian entrepreneur, adam gilmour, is building one of those budget carriers. adam: all right, guys, we're going soon. michael: five years ago, he c

. >> reporter: or if you're jeff bezos, nearly 200 billion? coming up on "sunday morning". >> pauley: our mo rocca is just back from spending time with tony and emmy award-winner christine baranski. it turns out she is an actor passionate about her craft and her home town. >> reporter: cris christine baranski first made it big on broadway before making it big in hollywood. but at heart, she is still a polish girl from buffalo. ♪♪ >> reporter: did anyone ever suggest that you change your name? >> yes. the suggestion was: why don't you change your name to chris barnes. and i said i'm not going to have a name like a hockey player. >> reporter: later on "sunday morning," christine baranski. >> pauley: it is true, there is no place like home, particularly asceasserena altschul will show us, when that home is in the pages of architectural digest. >> reporter: for a century, architectural digest has been giving us a glimpse of the most stylish homes. >> architectural digest has lasted 100 years because of the quality of the mission. we're showing

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