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You're just making excuses for them. They made a lot of money so they deserve to sit on it and use it just for themselves. I'm not talking about other people, I

You're just making excuses for them. They made a lot of money so they deserve to sit on it and use it just for themselves. I'm not talking about other people, I'm talking about people who only focus on continually acquiring money so they can blow it all on themselves when there is plenty for the rest of the world.

sokoloff 5y ago
They created a lot of value in exchange for the money in the first place. Now they’re using that money to create further value (at least for SpaceX). They made a lot of money and, as far as I’m concerned, they can spend it on whatever the hell they want. I have a ton of ideas on how people who aren’t me should spend their money, but I think it’s none of my business what they choose to do with their wealth, just as it’s none of my business what you do with yours.
- Dylan16807 5y ago
  > They created a lot of value in exchange for the money in the first place. The companies they owned created a lot of value. Some of it went to the employees, and some of it went to the owners. If I say that more of that value should have gone to the employees, and less to owners, that's a different thing from butting in and telling people how to spend the money they earned.
  - teslafire124 5y ago
    Spending the money they earned by exploiting their workers. You don't acquire billions unless it's at the expense of many. Amazon workers are treated and paid like garbage so that Bezos can go fly in space. At the very least that money should go back towards the people on whose backs he built his empire. Of course, Bezos is not completely to blame here. The system in place here allows men like him to continually accrue wealth. But that doesn't mean that it is morally right. Hell, even the Carnegies and Rockefellers ended up donating a huge amount of money to the arts to try to clean up their reputations as capitalist monsters.

sokoloff 5y ago

They created a lot of value in exchange for the money in the first place. Now they’re using that money to create further value (at least for SpaceX). They made a lot of money and, as far as I’m concerned, they can spend it on whatever the hell they want. I have a ton of ideas on how people who aren’t me should spend their money, but I think it’s none of my business what they choose to do with their wealth, just as it’s none of my business what you do with yours.

Dylan16807 5y ago
> They created a lot of value in exchange for the money in the first place. The companies they owned created a lot of value. Some of it went to the employees, and some of it went to the owners. If I say that more of that value should have gone to the employees, and less to owners, that's a different thing from butting in and telling people how to spend the money they earned.
- teslafire124 5y ago
  Spending the money they earned by exploiting their workers. You don't acquire billions unless it's at the expense of many. Amazon workers are treated and paid like garbage so that Bezos can go fly in space. At the very least that money should go back towards the people on whose backs he built his empire. Of course, Bezos is not completely to blame here. The system in place here allows men like him to continually accrue wealth. But that doesn't mean that it is morally right. Hell, even the Carnegies and Rockefellers ended up donating a huge amount of money to the arts to try to clean up their reputations as capitalist monsters.