Jeff Bezos makes the deal the most bliss yet

I answered watching the behavior of our technology on the questions that I have never thought about asking. How to blow NDA An army of the child’s mammas? Is there anything more embarrassing than Penson Bon’s impersonation? (Also, who is Benson Bon? It turns out that the answer is slightly over six years old.

In October 2018, Jamal Khashogji, a writer in Jeff Bezos Mamluk Washington PostKilled and cutting With the approval of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Known as MBS) after Khashoggi entered a Saudi consulate in Istanbul for papers for his next marriage. His body was not found. On May 13, Amazon from Bezos announced that it will work with Humain, MBS ‘AI, to build “Amnesty International” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – The two companies will spend more than $ 5 billion in this process.

Saudi money Old news in the technology industry – The General Investment Fund has been released in many startups, either directly or across intermediacs such as SoftBank. Ethical banks such as Andressen Horowitz Saudi money has been caught for a period of time. (Maybe this is the real reason They supported the favorite Saudi candidateThis is not the first deal for Amazon, either. In March, Amazon pledged to invest 5 billion dollars To build data centers in a country that is scrambling to look future.

In 2024, Saudi Arabia said it wanted to build an economy working for Amnesty International. There is a luxurious site for 2030 projectAnd I think it aims to distract our attention from all oil money. This date is not a coincidence – Many expectations say that this happens when oil production reaches Then he retreated. Regardless of the time of actual peak, the global transformation away from oil threatens the wealth of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For this reason the country is behaving like DipShit.

Take NEOMIt was described as the city of the future, on a previously imagined scale that was a “main tool” for MBS to unify the power, According to Ali DoganResearcher at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. The khashoggi murder was a blow to the project, such as stars like OpenAi and former US Energy Minister Ernest Moniz Their involvement. A number of companies publicly abandoned Saudi money – at least, for a period of time.

Neom moves down the fully predictable steam path. He continues to get Delayed and reducing itIt is logical because it is no longer the city From the future And an amazing investment opportunity as soon as it is built – it is just another city. However, according to Saudi officials, we will not have to worry about it for 50 years or perhaps 100 years. Meanwhile, despite contracts! investment! Amnesty International!

Look, I do not expect morals Taman or any of his ilk. But for basic reasons for maintaining the morale of employees, I would like to hesitate to invest in a state Literally killed one of my contractors. He not only killed him – but he was cut and then disappeared. An opportunity for the state only because my fear wanted to marry. Killing is bad enough, but all individual details make it worse.

Recently, Bezos seems to dismantle Washington PostOne of the leading press institutions in the United States – situation British failure machine Will LewisIt is known for his role in the preliminary scandal of phones in the United Kingdom, responsible. Last year, and mail He did not support the candidate In the American presidential race for the first time since 1960, which led to More than 200,000 subscriptions were canceled. Its stars were fleeing in large numbers. (Ann Telnaes, which was Paid the mail After the killing of a cartoon mocking Bezos, she recently won the Politzer Award for her work. Pardon!) Now, after all on Bezos’s position around Free Press, cut deals with people who kill journalists for saying uncomfortable things. But perhaps we should have seen it when it was banned From the surprising writers of opposition to “freedom of expression and markets.” Is the freedom of assassination considered one of the personal freedoms that claim the treasure bizus?

Everything is inverted. I mean, we really know that MBS may have penetrated Bezos phoneBut I think this water is under the bridge. Or maybe not. Perhaps MBS got something True good In this penetration. It is impossible to say whether this is driven by kompromat or greed, assume. But whatever the motive, we know one thing: it takes five years of publishing it Photo Op with a watchful reported grave To make one billion dollars deal with his killer.