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convenes a meeting to reconsider worker pay under this external pressure and raised the hourly rate across the board to $15. what s the implication there? are you saying that senator sanders outside pressure worked even if the bill didn t pass? and are there things that make jeff bezos or amazon act more in the interest of the public in your view? oh, ari, absolutely. they re very receptive to criticism and very attuned to criticism from the progressive wing of the democratic party, even when they re out on twitter insulting bernie sanders and his colleagues. the $15 an hour campaign now is almost a decade old. amazon ignored it for many years. it was only when the pressure really ratcheted up and also, frankly, the labor situation became very competitive. it was suddenly in amazon s interest to raise its wages because it s out there competing every single day with workers for the likes of walmart, so we
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economy, the work gap. bezos has become the second richest person in the world and he added a unfathomable $24 billion to his fortune during the pandemic alone. democrats often cite this kind of windfall should make reforms that would raise taxes on individually wealthy people like bezos, and all this as many worry about rent and food as bezos sends himself to space. bloomberg reporter, brad stone, is the author of amazon unbound. the book goes right inside some of the most secretive meetings that bezos has, which makes us very interested in your sources. thank you for being here. thank you, ari. you have been on this beat.
national enquirer. bezos investigator, no way, said they knew about them from the saudis. your book seems to get very close with new reporting suggesting that bezos and his team deflected a lot of what was other issues by elevating it into the conflict with the saudis, and yet you don t directly call him a liar. walk us through what your reporting shows and what you were getting at there of why that matters? right. ari, i want to allow for the possibility that maybe we don t have all the facts, and maybe we will never get all the facts. you know, there are, even today, accusations that the phones of wealthy business people and celebrities and politicians had this pegasus spy wear on them,