A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects. The highlight will be the creation of a network for nonprofit preschools that are to be built in low-income communities and accept students at no charge.
Bezos also intends to fund existing nonprofits that help homeless families by providing access to housing and food. Both initiatives will be overseen by something he’s calling the Bezos Day One Fund, which he’s committing $2 billion toward.
Each of the initiatives will have a specific group behind it: the Day 1 Families Fund and the Day 1 Academies Fund. The Families Fund will issue grants on a yearly basis to organizations doing “needle-moving work.” The Academies Fund will be in charge of launching and operating a network of schools entirely on its own. Bezos says they’ll be “high-quality” Montessori-inspired schools that offer “full scholarship,” seemingly to all students.
Bezos says he wants to directly control the schools’ operation so that they can be run like Amazon and adopt Amazon’s principles. “Most important among those will be genuine, intense customer obsession,” he writes. “The child will be the customer.”The initiative was announced in a note posted on Twitter. In the note, Bezos didn’t say how far along any of this was or when either initiative would get started. “Day One” is supposed to be a phrase about staying in a startup mindset, but it also seems like it may literally be day one for these ventures.
I can't wait for teachers in the wagecage and students to have a soylent IV drip
Thomas Martinez
it never gets old
Jose Perry
I know billionaire philanthropy is common and unsurprising, and you can expect them to all do it, but holy shit does hearing them talk about it trigger my inner ☭TANKIE☭. I can just hear this shit head's brand machinations. He knows the public school system is hamstrung by ideologues of his own class. He knows it is an opportunity to make himself look good by fulfilling a totally arbitrary need that shouldn't exist on a wide scale. He just salivates at pairing "AMAZON PRINCIPLES" with "OPPORTUNITY FOR UNDERPRIVILEGED KIDS FOR FREE!", and of course they'll be accepted based on their exceptionalism, validating the summary dispatch of all of their peers to the wage cage.
Ok students, get in your learning cages and turn your Ebook to page 10! Remember, every page costs one dollar!
Elijah Taylor
He's gonna datamine your kids and literally privatize them.
Andrew Bell
Is there any chance Amazon goes under in the next financial crisis? Fuck Bezos and his corporate baby.
Austin Ortiz
On all the porkies out there this one should be the first in the gulag, Musk would be close second
Connor Sanders
Amazon gets its profits from its web hosting businesses. It's behind something like a third of the internet. It's not going down any time soon. It's the Sears of the 21st century. The only thing that might destroy them is a oil shortage.
The creator of this earth will not allow man to transcend their domain and assume the domain of god, necessarily. We are a sub domain of a construction which encompasses far beyond the fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum which has energized all that we know. It's not possible for man to assume the throne of god. If it were possible, the moment we actualized it, we would each transcend our form and realize at once that we were in-fact god, rather, god serving his own will, in a capacity that only our creater could command. The closest that man can come to assuming the throne of god is to convince the earthly domain that man, is god. It's simply the antithesis of nature, the other pole within this polarity. It's necessary for antithesis to exist, as it defines the natural order in its mirrored opposition. The laws of god are omnipresent and immutable. Our attempts to catalogue them are as a child pretends. The laws of man are enforced by those alone who volunteer it of themselves. No matter our condition, we never abandon looking deeper into the abyss of machinations in our construction. New thoughts, new ideas, stories to tell, lists to be amassed, rumors of greatness, only to be returned into relegation; to now see a new path, much more perfect than the old one. We've learned so well to grow beyond our follies to stake our advance with immunity. That's a very old lie. There is no justice as we could recognize in this world, but I know that god smiles when he remembers extinguishing the light of Jeff Bezos, and of those who called themselves jews yet were not.
Gavin Sanchez
A bunker in Washington state. Maybe hanging out in CIA black ops zones now. Who knows these days. He has a few doubles too. Watch out.
Nathan Scott
Fugg
Brandon Robinson
Zero, partially because and partially because of all the CIAbux Bezos rolls in.
This. It's common knowledge that most construction equipment locks the user inside of a cage while being used and requires a foreman to release the occupant upon the completion of their shift. Kill yourself bezos
Chicken wire doesn't protect you fuck all fom anything that'd be a real threat to life and limb. And how have forklift drivers survived all these years in their nearly unprotected vehicles despite the heavy machinery and automated systems around them? You don't need a full fucking cage, unless your're trying to create a signal-blocking Faraday cage with all that wire.
AnNihl posters have nearly always been bait or trolls. Lurk more.
it's because forklift drivers are based and redpilled on the value of human life, so they don't even care if they die
Alexander Gonzalez
So I should let his bootlicking nonsense stand unquestioned and let it spread? Okay then.
It's a bit different to make assumptions on people based on a troll than to counteract its lies.
Dylan Myers
you retards, I am NOT defending this shit, I am saying that blowing this up out of proportion is of no use, as similar power exchanges already happen in an important number of industries.
Why do commies call us Utopians when we are progressing towards a An..Cap society at a faster rate when even most of US expected?
Also Based Bezos tearing down the statist control over the Human mind through the education system
Dylan Lewis
Privatisation of the state apparatus doesn't mean its abolition.
Ryder Sanders
Those are mostly corporations tho. Not true capitalism
Matthew Wood
Ancaps will pave the way to socialism
Ryan Morris
Your forgot private prisons.
Either way, you are only proving that Capitalist part of Anarcho-Capitalism is developing. While "Buisness regulations stripped away", personal freedom is stripped away as well. That directly contradicts your "progress".
