‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos | Jeff Bezos | The Guardian

The way that Amazon does business - its pressuring of suppliers, its systematic annihilation of retail competitors, its incessant harvesting of its customers' data, its treatment of its own workers as little better than machines - is, of course, inseparable from the personal wealth of its founder, Jeff Bezos, who earlier this week stepped down as CEO of the company. But even if the means by which that wealth had been amassed were somehow unobjectionable, it would still stand, purely on its own terms, as a moral obscenity. It's impossible to even conceive of the scale of this man's wealth. It's like trying to think about deep time: the mind's eye glazes over.