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That is a very naïve way to look at it. It is capitalism, and capitalism is brutal. So even if your view applies to some cases, it certainly does not to all.

Take Jeff Bezos' commentary after his ride into space for example:

> I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this. So, to every Amazon customer out there and every Amazon employee thank you from the bottom of my heart.

https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1417515577275453440

I get it that we, the consumers paid for this trip. But his employees? What do they have to do with this? Isn't it supposed to be a "collaborative and mutually beneficial" relationship, which would imply that Bezos is not making money from his employees, but exclusively through them, and paying them what they deserve? Yet he claims that they paid for it, which implies that he is not paying them what they deserve, since it is the customer who is supposed to pay his salary, not the exploitation of his employees.



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