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Jeff Bezos is worth more than his warehouse workers because he creates jobs for the workers to survive. if the warehouse workers were worth the same, they would

Jeff Bezos is worth more than his warehouse workers because he creates jobs for the workers to survive. if the warehouse workers were worth the same, they would have come up with AMZN. that amazon doesnt give out as much dividends and ploughs back all the profits to create new companies and new jobs shows that jeff bezos is more socialist than any self declared socialist. its going to back as wages! and benefits of society are for everyone. if this isnt more than fair, i dont know what is...if the wealth redistribution people ever lived in any other country other than california(i wouldnt include the rest of the usa), they would realise how socially responsible and beneficial ca's billionaires have been to california by contributing to not just california but to the rest of the world. if anyone is 45 or above, they'd know how it was in the 80s and early 90s. if anyone has lived anywhere else and shelled out double digit VAT, they'd know that the europeon mixed economies and social welfare states place a higher tax burden on the middle class for far lesser quality of life materially than in california. i wish i can air drop the proponents of 'eat the rich' into any one of the dozen countries..not even third world countries..for about 3 months. they'd realise how good we have it here in CA. or rather..how good we have had it...all that is going to go. it's ironic that the same people crying for blood and redistribution are the ones fleeing to tax free or low tax states. thanks for nothing.

tsimionescu 6y ago
You're describing the failed dream of trickle down economics or Ayn Rands objectivism fever dream. Jeff Bezos' money is not working out for anyone else as much as it is for Jeff Bezos. 40-60 years ago, people could support a family off a single factory worker salary. Now, a good 10 or 20 percent of Jeff Bezos's employees can't even support themselves and need food stamps to live. Global warming is making the entire world go to shit faster and faster. And you think people are better off? Not to mention, at the rate people's productivity has gone up, we should probably be working 3 or 4 day weeks at most, or earning almost double our wages. Instead, all of this extra productivity has been pocketed by Jeff Bezos and his ilk. > Jeff Bezos is worth more than his warehouse workers because he creates jobs for the workers to survive. if the warehouse workers were worth the same, they would have come up with AMZN. First of all, I didn't say he wasn't worth more to the company than 1 warehouse worker - of course he is. Is he worth more than all the warehouse and IT and sales workers combined? No. And please don't attribute to personal worth what is mostly a product of good luck - the fact that Jeff Bezos's move from books to everything else happened to be wildly successful doesn't mean it was a guaranteed success or that no one else could have done it. And after it started snowballing, pretty much anyone could have run Amazon and it would have still become a big success - especially anyone who doesn't care about the welfare of their workers, willing to cut corners, willing to extract massive subsidies from the state more or less directly (food stamps, the Amazon HQ bidding), willing to use their position and information to destroy their competitors, and so on. If Amazon didn't exist, it would have been replaced by a thousand other smaller enterprises that would have hired more people. Centralization and concentration of wealth and power are always a net negative for everyone who isn't very near the top of that concentration.

tsimionescu 6y ago

You're describing the failed dream of trickle down economics or Ayn Rands objectivism fever dream. Jeff Bezos' money is not working out for anyone else as much as it is for Jeff Bezos. 40-60 years ago, people could support a family off a single factory worker salary. Now, a good 10 or 20 percent of Jeff Bezos's employees can't even support themselves and need food stamps to live. Global warming is making the entire world go to shit faster and faster. And you think people are better off? Not to mention, at the rate people's productivity has gone up, we should probably be working 3 or 4 day weeks at most, or earning almost double our wages. Instead, all of this extra productivity has been pocketed by Jeff Bezos and his ilk. > Jeff Bezos is worth more than his warehouse workers because he creates jobs for the workers to survive. if the warehouse workers were worth the same, they would have come up with AMZN. First of all, I didn't say he wasn't worth more to the company than 1 warehouse worker - of course he is. Is he worth more than all the warehouse and IT and sales workers combined? No. And please don't attribute to personal worth what is mostly a product of good luck - the fact that Jeff Bezos's move from books to everything else happened to be wildly successful doesn't mean it was a guaranteed success or that no one else could have done it. And after it started snowballing, pretty much anyone could have run Amazon and it would have still become a big success - especially anyone who doesn't care about the welfare of their workers, willing to cut corners, willing to extract massive subsidies from the state more or less directly (food stamps, the Amazon HQ bidding), willing to use their position and information to destroy their competitors, and so on. If Amazon didn't exist, it would have been replaced by a thousand other smaller enterprises that would have hired more people. Centralization and concentration of wealth and power are always a net negative for everyone who isn't very near the top of that concentration.