Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, gave a fairly pedestrian and tedious commencement address at Princeton earlier this year, which is no crime–commencement addresses are supposed to be pedestrian and tedious unless given by comedians who are taking a dump on the whole process. But it was interesting to see Bezos make the case that “our character is reflected not in the gifts we’re endowed with at birth, but by the choices we make over the course of a lifetime.” Why?
Because as Rumpus Editor Julie Greicius pointed out when linking to this piece in The Nation, Amazon’s policies tell us an awful lot about Jeff Bezos’s character, though not the things I’d imagine Bezos was referring to in his speech.
