Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post. “Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post’s content…” LOL, the underrepresented capitalist perspective…
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There are several Problems with Bezos’s WaPo editorial memo but a big one is that what counts as a personal liberty and what counts as a free market are not obviously well-defined. Nor are there easy answers when the two potentially come into conflict, like in, let’s say, surveillance capitalism
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