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But that is not true. Skimming a few billions of Bezos' fortune would be enough to give all Amazon employee's a hefty raise for years to come.
by bjourne 5y ago
But that is not true. Skimming a few billions of Bezos' fortune would be enough to give all Amazon employee's a hefty raise for years to come.
- boring_twenties 5y agoHow do you figure? According to [1], Amazon had just shy of 1.3 million employees at the end of 2020. If by "a few billions," you meant something like $5 billion, that's only $3,846 per employee. edit: Crap, forgot [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number-of-employees https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...
- rjbwork 5y agoSo, roughly a 2 dollar/hour raise? Sounds pretty significant to me.
- boring_twenties 5y agoFor one year.
- ozim 5y agoYes, add to it that when Bezos start selling shares - because he does not have it in cash burried underground or mansions like Escobar - it will turn out it is not billions people think about it will be a lot lot less.