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Olivia Rodrigo Skips Met Gala After Liking Anti-Bezos Instagram Post

Consequence·Eddie Fu Follow·27 days ago
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Olivia Rodrigo was among the most notable celebrities not on the Met Gala red carpet on Monday, May 4th. Her absence came after she was among the 600,000 people and counting who liked an Instagram post criticizing Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos. The video post, from the workers’ rights group Amazon Cause, features a stern message delivered by an Amazon worker from North Carolina calling for a boycott of the event. Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets Here “My name is Mary Hill. I am a 72-year-old warehouse worker at one of your facilities,” she says. “When we struggle from paycheck to paycheck, from week to week, it really angers me because if it weren’t for every associate in every Amazon facility, he wouldn’t have all those zeros behind his name. Shame on you, Jeff Bezos. The people that need to be celebrated at the Met Gala are the workers. People like me. We deserve that celebration. We deserve so much more than we’re getting.” Hill continues, “There’s power in numbers, and there’s more of us than there are of you.…

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