Melania Trump's eponymous documentary flopped in its London debut.UK cinema chain Vue's will premier "Melania" at 3:10 p.m. at its flagship Islington theater in London, but so far only one person has bought a ticket and just two tickets have sold for a 6 p.m. showing – undercutting President Donald ...
That’s because it’s a bribe, and not a documentary that’s supposed to make money, lol.
40M is nothing to Bezos, and it’s a good investment if it wins him a few favors from Trump.
With narcissism, I think their goal is always both. They deserve the bribe and the adoration, in their minds
It shows a really quite astounding lack of self awareness to even think that it’s worth having a premier in the UK.
Had she been even remotely aware of how we (I’m from the UK) feel about her husband over here, she would know that this was inevitable.
Her husband is universally despised in this country. Even by the Right.
She should be despised too, she’s not a victim.
What about the far right though?
Some on the far right praise him, yeah. That’s true. “Universally” was my use of hyperbole.
The vast majority of UK residents despise him though, to the point that any political leader coming out in support of him would effectively be killing their career. Hence why Nigel Farage is dancing around the topic like maypole.
Having worked at Amazon for a couple years this is the most hilarious thing I’ve read.
If someone L10+ wants something to happen its gonna happen metrics be damned. Lemmings will fudge numbers and just make it work. For all the bluster about LPs and such it’s a very top down culture and what VPs and above want they fucking get it.
What’s an L10?
TL;DR it’s a way of indicating VP level positions at Amazon. It’s someone really high up the chain. To put in perspective Andy Jassy is an L12.
Longer answer. At Amazon every position has a level. I was a software engineer so that’s what I’ll speak to here but these apply to non engineering positions as well.
L1-3 are non engineering positions.
L4 is junior engineer
L5 is mid-senior IC (individual contributor) and the lowest rung for Engineering management.
L6 is Senior IC and middle rung for managers.
L7 is Principal engineer and Senior Manager. For context only about 1-2% of the company ever get this high.
L8 is Senior principal and Director level management.
L9 you skip because that was Bezos’ level and everyone just doesn’t use it.
L10 are VP level management. You occasionally get an IC this high when Amazon wants to poach talent from another company but generally this is reserved for management.
As you said, it’s only worth that amount as a bribe. Paying Trump directly would definitely be a problem if we had a functioning Supreme Court and Congress (or if he were a Democrat), but why not make sure that bribe has a thin veil of deniability by wrapping it up in a pretty package that’s labeled “Movie.”
Apparently you can just give him a Rolex and a gold bar and it’s all good.
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They believe they’ll get something back out of this via corruption for sure.
I think ultimately Trump will blame Amazon for messing up the movie defeating the whole point of the exercise though.
Amazon should have let Ellison’s companies make it because the backlash won’t have been worth it.
You misspelled, “public money laundering”.