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  • New Internationalist

    JEFF BEZOS

    Feb 15, 2021 3 minutes

    JOB: Amazon Founder and World’s Richest Person

    REPUTATION: A grinning bully

    The popular caricature of the 19thcentury robber baron financier in the pulp press of the day was a well-dressed fat guy with a leering avaricious expression. Not so Jeff Bezos, who is usually clad in comfortable jeans and loose-fitting shirt, presenting himself as the epitome of cool – slim and smirkingly self-confident. After all, those bad old days of narrow-minded evil capitalism

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