People shaking their fist at this on hacker news is weird.
Yes there is growing wealth inequality in the world. Because we invented a way to turn capital in to more capital without humans.
Bezos is just the first of many. He also has on average made other people richer than he has pocketed, he doesn't own more than 50% of Amazon, his investors (shareholders, pension funds, the US government) have all done incredibly well out of his vision and enterprise.
I love Prime, I love AWS, I love that I can get rare books over night at a great price. Should he be wealth capped? Should he innovate less as he get's more? Not as long as the primary way he makes money is through computers, that would just be self defeating. As someone who lives in Europe, the tech sector is America's growth engine and has defined the gap between the two economies, we'd love a Jeff Bezos.
Glitch creates Ad Campaigns 10x faster than a human that perform 5 times better. Even if the human uses AI.
We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.
We are a team of 16 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every 6 weeks.
We love Agentic Coders and want people who are building not for today but for what the next model can do. You wont build the app you will build the systems that build the app.
Bonus points if you think Agents can solve design and frontend UI.
We are definitely on an exponential in term of capabilities of humanoid robots.
We are probably only years away from having a robot in the house, in construction of robots. Automating anything that a human can do is best done in a human sized robot.
But.
None of these are actually useful right now. I don't want something with the arm strength of a forklift taking care of my parents or kids. The demand for humanoid robots right now is like lift a fridge from a delivery truck to a house (aka more mobile forklift) or walk through toxic sewage to pull crates out. Super useful but basically just mobile cranes, which is a small market. China seems to be making the mistake of pushing a tech demo as a consumer product (we've all been on those projects...) which can make people hate the tech.
Build something people want, don't mandate what they want. We're like 3-4 generations from amazing, useful robots. I'll be scared when these things are minding a bunch of dogs on stage.
There's lots of suicide attacks in poorer African countries.
But the west by and large won the war on terror, it broke up all the state sponsored terrorist camps, and built a vast surveillance network capable of spotting people trying to build these devices. Israel was the flashpoint and they built walls and put cameras and AI everywhere and just flat out ignore human rights. It's just really hard to radicalise someone to that extent and not have them show up. Isis was also behind a lot of the attacks and they don't exist anymore. Afghanistan and Pakistan also don't shelter terrorists anymore because they might have kicked the US out but they don't want them back again.
Most of this is terrible from a civil liberties / human rights / sovereignty point of view, but if you wanted to stop suicide bombings it worked.
Glitch let's Businesses create Ad Campaigns in 5 minutes (Down from 5 days) that perform 5 times better than traditional agencies. Our AI makes high performing ads available to everyone.
We need Engineers who want to tackle hard problems like treating the real world as context for LLMs, understanding markets in a few seconds, and dealing with the complex ML algorithms that underlie digital advertising.
We are a team of 8 and a mix of Startup Hustlers and ex-Google Ads Engineers. We've raised Seed and are doubling our customer base every quarter.
We love python, react, tailwind, OpenAI, Google Cloud, and Claude Code. The ideal candidate is running 10-15 instances of Claude Code at once.
Yes there is growing wealth inequality in the world. Because we invented a way to turn capital in to more capital without humans.
Bezos is just the first of many. He also has on average made other people richer than he has pocketed, he doesn't own more than 50% of Amazon, his investors (shareholders, pension funds, the US government) have all done incredibly well out of his vision and enterprise.
I love Prime, I love AWS, I love that I can get rare books over night at a great price. Should he be wealth capped? Should he innovate less as he get's more? Not as long as the primary way he makes money is through computers, that would just be self defeating. As someone who lives in Europe, the tech sector is America's growth engine and has defined the gap between the two economies, we'd love a Jeff Bezos.