My point really had nothing to do with Bezos in particular. He's one data point among hundreds of America's billionaires. And their collective wealth is by no m

My point really had nothing to do with Bezos in particular. He's one data point among hundreds of America's billionaires. And their collective wealth is by no means tiny. You're right in that the U.S. has socioeconomic issues for political reasons. But we can't disconnect the billionaire class from our political class. Billionaires have ridiculous, outsized influence over politicians and therefore public policy in the United States. And that influence ranges from crafting tax law that benefits them to modifying rules and regulations that given their businesses advantage. When wealthy people have tax law changed in their favor, we could charitably say that it is "indirectly" pulling money away from social programs that matter.