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> a system that allows $8 billion in wealth to accumulate enough to be controlled by one person has already failed I think you have little appreciation of how
by JackFr 6y ago
> a system that allows $8 billion in wealth to accumulate enough to be controlled by one person has already failed
I think you have little appreciation of how wealth is created.
Jeff Bezos became the wealthiest person in the world neither by stealing or exploiting , but rather by improving peoples lives. Amazon was able to organize systems, take advantage of technological developments and put capital to work to improve the lives of hundreds of millions of consumers.
- ssorallen 6y agoThe team at Amazon improved people's lives, not Jeff Bezos all by himself. Why couldn't there be thousands more millionaires that helped build Amazon rather than one mega billionaire?
- umvi 6y ago> Why couldn't there be thousands more millionaires that helped build Amazon rather than one mega billionaire? There probably are thousands of millionaries that helped build Amazon... assuming they held onto their stock from the time they joined to the present.
- dangus 6y ago> neither by stealing or exploiting Citation needed, as they say. There have been dozens of controversies involving Amazon: shopping for tax breaks it doesn’t need for HQ2, micro-managing warehouse employees’ bladder, union busting, firing a COVID whistleblower, cross-contaminating inventory, insufficient protections against counterfeit items, building a book ecosystem monopoly, probably numerous others I haven’t thought of off the top of my head.