I, meanwhile, ordered some (essential!) eyeliner, just not from Amazon – only from Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world.
A few weeks back, Himself and I went into town – Dublin – for the first time since lockdown began.
He won’t admit it, but my bloke is a bit of a shopaholic, and lockdown meant he’d been buying online a lot more. I know because delivery men kept arriving. Wandering through the book store that day I lost track of my fella, but later I saw him talking to someone, presumably a bookseller.“We thought we’d come into town, spend a bit of money, support local businesses, you know…” We exchanged a few niceties, and then left.
Thank God I didn’t hand him my books to ring up! I thought about this again this week – about money, where we spend it – when the boss of Amazon, Bezos, became the equivalent of the 53rd biggest economy in the world – adding some $13 billion to his personal wealth in just one day.
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