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I really don't like these kind of headlines and honestly I'm not sure why it's even posted on HN. What is here to discuss? His wealth comes from his company an

I really don't like these kind of headlines and honestly I'm not sure why it's even posted on HN. What is here to discuss? His wealth comes from his company and to brag about morale, justice and society usually ends up in fights. I don't know Jeff, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't care much about money, like if it's $100B or $172B. From my point of view, money is only a way to make his visions come true. For me that is Blue Origin.

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tosers4 6y ago
From watching from afar, it seems that right now he makes sure amazon grows just to be able to finance Blue Origin from his own pockets. He is just a man with ambitions, whose "crime" people call out is amazon not paying profit taxes... With all the taxes from the non cash business amazon brings, that is the least ethical concern about amazon, specially since most of time they indeed have no profit as they reinvest. Now the warehouse conditions is another thing, but hey it's america, those are spoken about because every its like that but amazon is a big target. Amazon is a big corp like any other it has a bunch of faults, but to point Bezos simply evil over it is ridiculous, he does not have full control of amazon like Zuck has over FB
- therealdrag0 6y ago
  >but hey this is America I think that’s worth discussing (op asked what there is to discuss). I don’t think rich people are evil. But I wish we could come up with mechanisms for them to share their wealth with their employees who helped them build that wealth.
  - benjaminsuch 6y ago
    I know where you are coming from, but that is basically what the salary is for. We just have the bad situation that not everyone is in a driver seat to negotiate his salary (or have a choice). I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but in germany for example, there is minimum wage. I think the society and politicians are responsible to make sure that employees are treated gracefully and to establish mechanisms.
    - therealdrag0 6y ago
      Ya I am split on the issue myself. The USA has min wage, but it’s pretty low and it there is more inequality than just that. It just feels like execs get more than their fair share. Like when the US is compared to Japan, Japanese execs have less extreme inequality among employees in the same company. I wish there were ways to incentivize that. No individual human needs to be worth a billion dollars. And while it’s true that the execs have earned something, studies show that there is more luck and randomness to their performance than personality-cults will acknowledge. It’s annoying that they are entitled so much wealth when studies shows that performance of their companies is much more Influenced by other factors than that one execs work alone.

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tosers4 6y ago

From watching from afar, it seems that right now he makes sure amazon grows just to be able to finance Blue Origin from his own pockets. He is just a man with ambitions, whose "crime" people call out is amazon not paying profit taxes... With all the taxes from the non cash business amazon brings, that is the least ethical concern about amazon, specially since most of time they indeed have no profit as they reinvest. Now the warehouse conditions is another thing, but hey it's america, those are spoken about because every its like that but amazon is a big target. Amazon is a big corp like any other it has a bunch of faults, but to point Bezos simply evil over it is ridiculous, he does not have full control of amazon like Zuck has over FB

therealdrag0 6y ago
>but hey this is America I think that’s worth discussing (op asked what there is to discuss). I don’t think rich people are evil. But I wish we could come up with mechanisms for them to share their wealth with their employees who helped them build that wealth.
- benjaminsuch 6y ago
  I know where you are coming from, but that is basically what the salary is for. We just have the bad situation that not everyone is in a driver seat to negotiate his salary (or have a choice). I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but in germany for example, there is minimum wage. I think the society and politicians are responsible to make sure that employees are treated gracefully and to establish mechanisms.
  - therealdrag0 6y ago
    Ya I am split on the issue myself. The USA has min wage, but it’s pretty low and it there is more inequality than just that. It just feels like execs get more than their fair share. Like when the US is compared to Japan, Japanese execs have less extreme inequality among employees in the same company. I wish there were ways to incentivize that. No individual human needs to be worth a billion dollars. And while it’s true that the execs have earned something, studies show that there is more luck and randomness to their performance than personality-cults will acknowledge. It’s annoying that they are entitled so much wealth when studies shows that performance of their companies is much more Influenced by other factors than that one execs work alone.