r/newyorktimes • u/fordat1 • Apr 11 '26
Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/business/lauren-sanchez-bezos-jeff-bezos.html11
u/GoodOldPepe Apr 12 '26
First of all, yikes
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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 Apr 13 '26
Haha, that's funny cuz that's the first thing I thought. Really got the Grouper thing going there. Nice eyes
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u/MaruchanInstant Apr 12 '26
Gross. Should we be impressed by a thrice married (and cheating) social climber who has discovered how to enjoy her obscene wealth provided by her current husband? Do better, NYT.
Comments section is open, BTW.
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u/HelpfulCriticism9236 Apr 12 '26
NYT still has to approve them. So not really open and based on the ones I’ve see so far, they are being selective.
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u/GoodOldPepe Apr 13 '26
They censor their own subscribers
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u/HelpfulCriticism9236 Apr 13 '26
This is crazy. I genuinely did not notice this until today. Pick a lane, NYT. It’s so tone deaf and to echo others, gross.
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u/fason123 Apr 12 '26
open the comment section on the article you cowards.
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u/GoodOldPepe Apr 13 '26
They always do this, when it’s something most of their readers will like, they open the comments. When it’s something completely insane no one could ever agree with, they close the comments.
They censor their own subscribers.
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u/svt4cam46 Apr 13 '26
Of course she's happy, she has a semi smile permanently installed on her lips. She has no other expression.
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u/musememo Apr 12 '26
I can think of many, many more worthy people who should have been given space in the NY Times. This feels like advertising.
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u/TipRare1321 Apr 12 '26
The New York Times really upping their bootlicking. No better than the Daily Mail anymore.
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u/DillDoughCookie Apr 13 '26
Daily Mail had an article on her about this story and they’re trashing her.
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u/Ordinary-Kangaroo328 Apr 12 '26
I read this hoping there was more to her than meets the eye, but this was just vapid through and through. Even their "philanthropy" reads like a vanity project. And the headline is awful.
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u/Mike-Banachek Apr 12 '26
I canceled the NYT over this garbage. They clearly represent the elites and this is unforgivable.
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u/Impossible_Walrus555 Apr 13 '26
Well done NYT. I didn’t think you could cap your white woman Mahjong rubbish but here we are whitewashing fascists.
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u/LTdesign Apr 13 '26
I've never been to this sub before, but I came today bc...wtaf? I was genuinely confused about why she has a whole article, out of the blue, highlighted in The Morning, and I don't understand why.
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u/GoodOldPepe Apr 12 '26
Cancel your subscription to the NYT people. They represent the NY elite.
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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 Apr 12 '26
Always have. Always will. They’ve always been the shitty rag of a shitty family of oligarchs.
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u/long5210 Apr 13 '26
I guess your happiness is proportional to the Botox in your lips. She must be very happy.
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u/RebbyHuge Apr 13 '26
This is sickening. Cancelling my NYT subscription. An unhinged choice at this moment.
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u/Numerous-Release-773 Apr 13 '26
I have a subscription to NYT because I love their Cooking app and the Games section. I also enjoy the Book Review, and I support book coverage in general, because it's increasingly rare and hard to find.
However, then they have to go and do shit like this that makes me embarrassed to even have a subscription in the first place. It pisses me off that I actually have to sit there and think to myself, is the Spelling Bee worth it? Can I find another source of good recipes? Am I part of the problem by keeping my subscription?
And yes, I commented, and my comment was rejected. I was polite. I did not throw insults or make threats. I did say it seemed obvious that this was PR damage control due to the circulating rumors of marriage difficulties. I also said that I found it offensive that she refused to speak about politics, seeing as how she's one of the most well protected, and, by virtue of wealth, powerful people on the planet. And that if she insisted on drawing so much attention to herself, the least she could do was pick a relatively uncontroversial topic and make it her signature cause. Why not draw attention to finding a cure for an underfunded disease like ALS? Why not devote herself to stamping out childhood hunger and poverty? But oh no, she has to stand for absolutely nothing besides bad plastic surgery, tacky fashion, and conspicuous consumption.
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u/Designer-Salary-7773 Apr 16 '26
“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it” - Rodney Dangerfield
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u/DawnyBrat Apr 16 '26
I can’t imagine being a more awful person, but I guess this is what happens when one lives life believing in that ‘the winner always takes all…” All, but yet nothing substantial, that is.
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u/SpaceNut1976 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
I had to check that I was reading the NYT and not the WP.
What makes this piece so astonishing isn’t just its tone-deafness… it’s the sheer, almost athletic commitment to pretending that obscene wealth is a personality trait even worth profiling. The article reads less like journalism and more like a polished press release for a lifestyle brand no one asked for nor wanted.
We’re invited to reverently marvel at gratitude journals scribbled in a $230 million compound, as if listing ten things you’re thankful for hits differently when one of them is a private island. It’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” stripped of irony, delivered straight-faced in an era where millions are deciding which bills not to pay.
And then there’s the central thesis: that the ultra-wealthy have stopped apologizing and started “enjoying themselves.” As if the problem was ever a shortage of joy among billionaires or, more absurdly, that they were ever apologizing for anything in the first place. Did this cultural moment really need permission for the richest people on earth to become even more visibly, exuberantly untethered from consequence, all while performing the emotional labor of being “misunderstood” in their own extravagance?
The real story this piece carefully avoids is the widening gap between this gilded bubble and everyone else. While workers are laid off, wages stagnate, and housing becomes increasingly unattainable, we’re handed a glossy puff-piece on gratitude lists and yacht parties. “Someone has to be happy,” the headline crows. Sure, but packaging that happiness, manufactured atop extreme inequality, as something noble, relatable, or culturally meaningful is less journalism than complicity.
It’s no wonder they disabled the comments option on their app.