“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”
Lmao the governors tell people to run over protestor here if they are in the street. Both methods block travel in the city, Venice is just specifically aimed at inconveniencing Bezos rather than the general populace.
They probably also think USPS delivers there using Prime shipping. Those are the kind of people reproducing.
Exactly what came to mind when I read that.
People of Venice! The time has come to show the world what you’re made of, and more importantly, what you’ve got inside.
Let the canals bear witness to your courage. Not with arms, but with… offerings. I want to see a million floating turds on that sacred day. Let this wedding be remembered. Not for love, but for sheer intestinal audacity.
Take a stand, take a squat, and defecate for dignity.
Fate la storia. Fate galleggiare la gloria.
Moeche can feed on billionaires. Just sayin’.
Bezos’ is hardly the only high-dollar wedding to be held in the city — not least George and Amal Clooney’s nuptials in 2014, which were cheered on by locals.
Yeah don’t confuse the Clooneys for Bezos, please. Whether an actor should be a half-billionaire is up for debate but if anyone should have that kind of money yes it’s artists, sportsball players, etc. That is, don’t confuse celebrities and feudal lords. Venice is an ancient and serene republic, have some self-respect.
Whether an actor should be a half-billionaire is up for debate but if anyone should have that kind of money yes it’s artists, sportsball players, etc.
Why would it be more fair for them than CEOs? I’m not defending this one but asking in general.
The vast majority of CEOs don’t become billionaires, most billionaires are born with a golden spoon in their mouth, and the rest got there by stepping on everyone else’s backs. That’s rewarding sociopathy.
Artists and athletes don’t do either, they work to get good at their craft and, crucially, would be doing the same thing even if they were not as successful as they are. You can count them as petite bourgeois which of course come in good and bad but as artists and athletes are not, by trade, businesspeople they tend to very much fall on the good side. Like, you won’t see Clooney undermining the actor’s union – on the contrary, he’s advocated for raising his own union dues. And when they use their money to start a business you don’t tend to get another Oracle or something but ARCH Motorcycles. Give me one reason why, in luxury space anarchism, the answer to Keanu Reeves saying “I want to build cool motorcycles, you in?” the answer of the collective wouldn’t range from “hell yes” to “meh but you guys do you”. He’d get all the resources he’d need: He entertained and uplifted billions, of course we’ll chime in.
OTOH, of course, fuck J.K. Rowling. But unlike with the golden spoon billionaires she’s the exception, not the norm.
Artists are on a gift-based economy. They gain status by giving away works. If you are the best artist in the world but don’t make an effort to share your works, you are irrelevant. The more they give away the more they are recognised. Even if they give them away via pirated works. See: movies, songs that everybody knows and resonates with. Status is their currency, not money.
The status then allows them to obtain more money than other people, incidentally.
CEOs are on a market-based economy, they sell goods and services for money. They don’t sell their status. The goods and services they sell are not theirs, but created with the stolen sweat, blood and lives of the people that work for them, which get a minuscule share of the profit for the amount of life they put onto it.
In gift-based economies such as the ones of artists, open source developers, fashion, cultures without scarcities of the specific resource that makes the economy (such as small plentiful tropical tribes, communes, etc), the status is the currency.
George Clooney is rich. Jeff bezos is wealthy
Devided? Between who?
Checks article: And Its berween the people who have lives there versus the ruling class who are about to profit because of course.
Recently visited Venice, and it was an excellent place.
From my observations, there is not really a place for big business there; no big roads, hardly any trains, essentially no commercial transport besides small boats. In a place as such, goliaths like Amazon are likely out-competed by local businesses.
It warms my heart.
Sto cazzo…fottetelo.
Must be good to know you are disliked by the majority of a city
Serious question, why are Venetians against Bezos’ wedding? Did he do anything that offended the city before?
The city is literally sinking, global warming is not helping and billionaires disproportionately contribute to it.
Apart from every other answer already given, Venice is existentially threatened by the continuous influx of people causing huge costs to the city while contributing absolutely nothing to the local economy.
I am Italian, I have stayed in my uncle’s house in Rialto and loved to experience the little local life that was left at that time (20 years ago, more or less). Nonetheless, I have made the conscious choice not to visit the city ever again until it gets its shit together.
It is in fact cursed to disappear, but to deny young people to experience it because it is turning into a Disneyland for old people is just cruel.
