“We are very proud of this! We are nobodies, we have no money, nothing!” Tommaso Cacciari, from a group calling itself No Space for Bezos, told the BBC.

“We’re just citizens who started organising and we managed to move one of the most powerful people in the world - all the billionaires - out of the city.”

The wedding kicks off later this week, and has a star-studded guest list of the rich and famous that is rumoured to include Kim Kardashian, Mick Jagger and Leonardo diCaprio, as well as several of the Trumps.

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    Maximizing value extraction is not bad as long as there is a free market. That’s what drives competition and brings prices down. Of course, employees and customers need other options for this to be fair.

    Unless you organize a cooperating economy, maximizing value extraction is inevitable.

    Besides, you shouldn’t ignore the work he does.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Maximizing value extraction is not bad as long as there is a free market.

      Yes it is. It is inherently exploitative.