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His work, personally? Not his executive team, not his engineers, not the warehouse workers making $15/hour, the work of Jeff Bezos and only Jeff Bezos?
by bydo 6y ago
His work, personally? Not his executive team, not his engineers, not the warehouse workers making $15/hour, the work of Jeff Bezos and only Jeff Bezos?
- tosers4 6y agoif it was only Jeff Bezos he would be worth more than a Trillion. Jeff started it, and did efficiently, so that he didn't had to sell out to too much VC. He manages one of the most efficient companies in the world. and plenty of employees have equity, I wish companies here did the same.
- Erwin 6y agoAccording to levels.fyi, an "Amazon Distinguished Engineer" (L10) is making $960,000/year. The GDP per capita in Central African Republic is $681/year. Should someone that is basically a typist, earn 10,000 as much as another human being?
- scruple 6y agoI completely agree with the point you are making but calling an Amazon L10 "basically a typist" weakens your argument and is absurdly dismissive.
- pinkfoot 6y ago> The GDP per capita in Central African Republic is $681/year. No doubt you factored in that 40% of the CAR is under 14. (And fully 60% is under 25). The denominator also counts. And that's ENTIRELY controlled by the good folk of the CAR.
- donatj 6y agoYes, if that person's work is 10,000 times more influential? Which it probably is? Also “someone that is basically a typist“ is so... dismissive. If I were paid for my typing I’d be broke, my most productive days are often days I type the least. I am paid for my reasoning and deduction, not my ability to type. You’re confusing the work for the medium. Does Stephen King deserve more per word than a courtroom stenographer?
- edanm 6y agoHis work personally started everything else. Without him, there wouldn't be an Amazon, and none of those other jobs would exist, and trillions less value would exist in the world. Though to be fair, a good counterargument to what I just said is that likely something else would've existed, so it's not true that trillions wouldn't exist, just the difference between Amazon and the next best thing. And there are still plenty of good reason to tax Jeff Bezos heavily enough to make sure there is less disparity, or organize society differently to not allow such a large difference in wealth. I mostly don't agree with those arguments, but obviously there are some good ones.