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Presumably they're being disingenuous and comparing the average salary across the entire industry (including senior positions / management / etc) to Amazon's sa

Presumably they're being disingenuous and comparing the average salary across the entire industry (including senior positions / management / etc) to Amazon's salary floor, while you are making the appropriate comparison to a warehouse worker. And even then comparing an average to a minimum would still be disingenuous.

lrdswrk00 5y ago
Disingenuous based upon math. Bezos’ wealth is disingenuous built on disingenuous narrative he did it himself and is somehow entitled to as much political scrip he can leverage. Fiat currency makes belief in a persons wealth not much different than belief in a holy mans connection to God. Decoupled from their actual output, coupled to their ability to maintain a social meme. Religion is effectively the same; belief decoupled from observable reality. We’re all playing a disingenuous semantic game, and it’s hurting all of us.
- inglor_cz 5y ago
  Was it ever different? The saying "All that glitters is not gold" exists for a reason.
  - lrdswrk00 5y ago
    Exactly. All your warm fuzzies about yourself are not for me to bother with. I am as beholden to coddling all y’all’s self as you are to making sure people who need it today have cheap insulin. It’s a semantics free market not a financial one. If my efforts undo your wealth, zero fucks. See we get to pick and choose who figuratively exists. Doesn’t have to be Bezos or you. Or me. None of us are gold or glitter. As none of us are concepts. Just meat bags. I’m fine disabusing people of their importance so long as they are inclined to allow it to happen to others. You’re all on your way out. There is no Valhalla and your work will be forgotten. Why assign value to such unimportant things? Edit: oh no downvotes; all my influence! Good thing I was around to buy AAPL in the 90s at $6-9/share. Four letters are more valuable to me than your opinions. I know you all get that.
    - f6v 5y ago
      You’re downvoted because it’s gibberish.
      - lrdswrk00 5y ago
        Yup, so is the original comment. The meaning of all that “glitters is gold” applied to reality is arbitrary. I don’t have obligation to recite some historical meaning the author might intend. I can see Bezos as glittering now but not gold. I can see accruing fiscal wealth as the same. The only language with concrete meaning are the outputs of physical science experiment. There is or is not a physical object or force. Colloquialism are subjective. The when and where to apply a math formula is subjective. Just because one can be defined such that it abides the order of operations of math doesn’t mean it represents reality accurately. Who eats still comes down to political influence. We can help a lot more people thrive if we socially allowed for less rounding off of who is valuable. But since we prefer to do that; why not round off this community as unimportant? You’re all just as normal as anyone.
    - birdyrooster 5y ago
      Good luck with your mental health.
      - lrdswrk00 5y ago
        My goal is to make you all feel how I feel reading this forum. Seems it worked.

lrdswrk00 5y ago

Disingenuous based upon math. Bezos’ wealth is disingenuous built on disingenuous narrative he did it himself and is somehow entitled to as much political scrip he can leverage. Fiat currency makes belief in a persons wealth not much different than belief in a holy mans connection to God. Decoupled from their actual output, coupled to their ability to maintain a social meme. Religion is effectively the same; belief decoupled from observable reality. We’re all playing a disingenuous semantic game, and it’s hurting all of us.

inglor_cz 5y ago
Was it ever different? The saying "All that glitters is not gold" exists for a reason.
- lrdswrk00 5y ago
  Exactly. All your warm fuzzies about yourself are not for me to bother with. I am as beholden to coddling all y’all’s self as you are to making sure people who need it today have cheap insulin. It’s a semantics free market not a financial one. If my efforts undo your wealth, zero fucks. See we get to pick and choose who figuratively exists. Doesn’t have to be Bezos or you. Or me. None of us are gold or glitter. As none of us are concepts. Just meat bags. I’m fine disabusing people of their importance so long as they are inclined to allow it to happen to others. You’re all on your way out. There is no Valhalla and your work will be forgotten. Why assign value to such unimportant things? Edit: oh no downvotes; all my influence! Good thing I was around to buy AAPL in the 90s at $6-9/share. Four letters are more valuable to me than your opinions. I know you all get that.
  - f6v 5y ago
    You’re downvoted because it’s gibberish.
    - lrdswrk00 5y ago
      Yup, so is the original comment. The meaning of all that “glitters is gold” applied to reality is arbitrary. I don’t have obligation to recite some historical meaning the author might intend. I can see Bezos as glittering now but not gold. I can see accruing fiscal wealth as the same. The only language with concrete meaning are the outputs of physical science experiment. There is or is not a physical object or force. Colloquialism are subjective. The when and where to apply a math formula is subjective. Just because one can be defined such that it abides the order of operations of math doesn’t mean it represents reality accurately. Who eats still comes down to political influence. We can help a lot more people thrive if we socially allowed for less rounding off of who is valuable. But since we prefer to do that; why not round off this community as unimportant? You’re all just as normal as anyone.
  - birdyrooster 5y ago
    Good luck with your mental health.
    - lrdswrk00 5y ago
      My goal is to make you all feel how I feel reading this forum. Seems it worked.