Opinion: I trusted Jeff Bezos. The joke is on me.

In this new gilded age, maybe we should set aside trust and — as Bezos himself once urged — embrace skepticism.

(Elizabeth Lippman | The New York Times)
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, in Los Angeles, Jan. 6, 2019.

(Elizabeth Lippman | The New York Times) Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, in Los Angeles, Jan. 6, 2019.

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