WWKMD?, Episode 2: Bezos Through Marx's Eyes: Capitalism Personified

This episode reads Jeff Bezos and Amazon through Karl Marx's theories, arguing that Bezos exemplifies capitalism's dynamics rather than individual genius.

It explores alienation in warehouses, commodity fetishism that turns collective labor into a lone visionary, monopoly and accumulation, the role of surveillance and algorithmic control, and spacefaring ambitions as capitalist expansion.

Ultimately, the episode suggests Marx would see Bezos as the inevitable, concentrated expression of capitalism’s power, contradictions, and growing fragility.