Bezos Wants It All!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

American billionaire and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is a man who sucks more vigorously than any vacuum the Hoover Company ever produced.  Not only does Bezos control Amazon, the world's largest on-line retailer, he also has his heavy hand in the entertainment industry with  Amazon Studios as well as the Prime streaming network and all of the other "independent" networks which peddle their streaming services through Prime.  Bezos has a firm grip on the "free" press with his ownership of the Washington Post, one of our nation's two or three premier newspapers, and Bezos even has his own space flight company, Blue Origin, and has ridden one of his own rockets into space.  

Jeff Bezos appears to be the man who has it all - or at least a man who intends to have it all.

Bezos manages at-home shopping for millions of people around the globe, and he has created his own delivery force to get many of those goods from his world-wide network of warehouses onto the front porches of customers in some of the most far-flung places imaginable.  Those pesky little Amazon delivery vans are as ubiquitous in major US cities and suburbs today as taxicabs were just a few years ago.

But in spite of how much Jeff Bezos has - or controls - it never seems to be enough.  Last year he bumped the subscription rate of his Amazon Prime membership from $119 to $139 per year, an overreach that slowed subscriptions.  He also went from one "Prime Day" a year (a major on-line sales event) last year to two per annum - and next year there will be an even bigger affront to consumers when  Amazon will begin infusing its standard streaming service with commercials and then charging its Prime subscribers an additional three dollars a month get the same service commercial-free.

Think about that sweet deal (for Bezos):  He will make lots of extra cash by adding commercials to his streamed programming, he will already be selling subscriptions for people to watch the streamed programs, he has the ability to raise the fees for watching the streamed programs whenever the mood hits him - as he did last year - and now, if the couch potatoes want to skip the commercials, they can pay him three more dollars each and every month!

If Bezos sucked any harder, the carpet tacks would be flying out of the floorboards!

Hey, fellow couch potatoes, keep your butts firmly planted where they are because the change between-and-under the couch cushions may soon be the only spendable income that we have left!  Jeff Bezos may not have it all yet, but by God he is coming for it!

Bezos wants it all!