“If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive.
If you’re charging $44,000 per student, how much of that money do you think is trickling down to teachers?
And that takes skill,”“the five whys”“What we don’t do, because it doesn’t work, is just point fingers and blame people.
It might feel good for 10 seconds, but it doesn’t accomplish anything,”“When people are starting out and they’re struggling, stop taxing them.
We live in the wealthiest country in the world,”“I don’t want to reduce it, I want to eliminate it,”
“If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive. We’d have to charge you a $100 delivery fee. And then when the package did finally arrive, it’d have the wrong item in it anyway,”
“None of this money is getting to the teachers, I promise you. If you’re charging $44,000 per student, how much of that money do you think is trickling down to teachers? Not much,”
“I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.”
Jeff Bezos criticises ‘tax-the-rich’ approach, calls for root-cause solutions
“What’s happening here is politicians are using the kind of age-old techniques … you know, picking a villain and pointing fingers,”
“tale of two economies.”
“But the problem is that doesn’t solve anything. And so like, if you want to help the group of people who are struggling, you have to figure out real root causes and solutions. And that takes skill,”
“the five whys”
“What we don’t do, because it doesn’t work, is just point fingers and blame people. It might feel good for 10 seconds, but it doesn’t accomplish anything,”
“When people are starting out and they’re struggling, stop taxing them. We don’t need it. We live in the wealthiest country in the world,”
“I don’t want to reduce it, I want to eliminate it,”
