One of the flashiest critiques to emerge from the recent firestorm over Jeff Bezos cosponsoring the Met Gala came from Raleigh resident Mary Hill, a 72-year-old Amazon worker.
On the eve of the gala—an annual display of wealth that critics found particularly grating this year with Bezos and his wife Lauren at the helm—an anti-billionaire activist group projected a video onto the side of the Bezoses’ palatial Manhattan penthouse that showed Hill addressing Bezos directly. She did not mince words.
“Shame on you, Jeff Bezos,” Hill said, her bespectacled face and yellow hoodie towering stories tall above Fifth Avenue. “The people that need to be being celebrated at the Met Gala are the workers—people like me.”…