Jon Stewart once told Jeff Bezos at a dinner with the Obamas that workers wanted fulfillment, not jobs running errands for rich people: 'That's a recipe for revolution'
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Workers want to feel like they're not just "running errands for people that have more than you," Stewart said on "The Problem With Jon Stewart."

I don't remember this being posted here and I just heard about it today, so it's news to me.

  • D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    In an episode of the podcast "The Problem With Jon Stewart" published this month, Stewart described meeting Bezos at a dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama, then-first lady Michelle Obama, the billionaire Mark Cuban, and an unnamed guest whom Stewart described as the "inventor of the Oculus" virtual-reality headset.

    :ummm: That's one hellofa big club that I'm not a part of.

    • sappho [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      the “inventor of the Oculus” virtual-reality headset

      The brony, Palmer Luckey? The guy who was a PR nightmare and was quickly moved out of the public eye following the Facebook acquisition? That guy is in a class with Obama and Bezos?

      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Lmao he used to post on /r/the_donald…he has since denied that he did the things that he told The Daily Beast he did, but in summary:

        Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America, a self-described “social welfare 501(c)4 non-profit” in support of the Republican nominee.

        Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym “NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given to him by the organization’s founders.

        Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,” according to the company’s introductory statement, and has taken credit for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a cartoonishly large image of Clinton’s face alongside the words “Too Big to Jail.”

        “We conquered Reddit and drive narrative on social media, conquered the [mainstream media], now it’s time to get our most delicious memes in front of Americans whether they like it or not,” a representative for the group wrote in an introductory post on Reddit.

      • UlyssesT
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        16 days ago

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