“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.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

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

    Yes it is. It is inherently exploitative.

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      14 hours ago

      How is it exploitative? If you get market rates for your work or pay market rates for the stuff you buy, you don’t lose in transactions.

      Those who maximize value extraction optimize resource allocation and bring prices down for everybody.