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> Should he be forced to give up his ownership in the company he built? How do you even picture that claim? Is it Bezos literally building every warehouse with
by josefx 6y ago
> Should he be forced to give up his ownership in the company he built?
How do you even picture that claim? Is it Bezos literally building every warehouse with his own two hands? Is it him being at a thousand places at once dealing with paperwork, marketing and packaging all by himself? For every billionaire out there there are thousands of workers that were denied their share of the success. I would say the only way someone could be a honest "self made" billionaire is by mugging an other billionaire in a dark alley.
- anchpop 6y agoThere's a colloquial sense of building something that doesn't require that you do 100% of the work yourself. For example, when people say they're building a house, almost always they're just hiring someone else to actually build it and all they've contributed was money. Besides that, there are some billionaires that did get their wealth honestly in my estimation, like JK Rowling and Markus Persson.
- josefx 6y ago> JK Rowling A good point. I wasn't aware that she was a billionaire and she apparently gave most of it away by now, dropping her well bellow a billion again. > Markus Persson. I remember that there was a lot of controversy around Minecraft, but I can't accurately recall the details to counter that.