Bezos is _NOT_ a sociopath. He saw a true need (old guard was permanently retired by dot-com crash, remaining low-wage workers couldn't do much more than HTML)

Bezos is _NOT_ a sociopath. He saw a true need (old guard was permanently retired by dot-com crash, remaining low-wage workers couldn't do much more than HTML) and stepped up with Andy Jaffe's idea for helping them out. He also has submarines, rocket ships and a whole lot of other cool things...(at least Steve Ballmer bought a basketball team and Paul Allen had NFL, basketball and soccer teams!) Gates is doing Carnegie ---not making up for ordering his guards to open fire on striking workers, just making up for countless numbers of entrepreneurial people (not unlike you might find here on Ycombinator if it had existed back in the day) that died after their life's work was utterly destroyed by his wealth building tactics. I leave you with this...from C|Net's Don Reisinger on Paul Allen: "One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve [Ballmer] speaking heatedly in Bill's office and paused outside to listen in," he writes in his memoir. "It was easy to get the gist of the conversation. They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders. It was clear that they'd been thinking about this for some time." The lack of productivity wasn't intentional, Allen claims. A few months earlier, he was informed by doctors that he had Stage 1-A Hodgkin's lymphoma. He stayed on at Microsoft during his treatment, but Allen says that he was a victim of Gates and Ballmer at his weakest moment." So forgive the rant provoked by the notion one would include Bezos in the same topic with Bill Gates. We suggest Gates just keep writing large checks, playing Bridge with Warren Buffet and be thankful he doesn't have a prison record for what he got away with when the world governments (and their old mainframes) didn't have a clue what he was doing or why it mattered.