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Who said anything about that you should feel sorry for Jeff Bezos? The parent commentator simply described the circumstances regarding what Jeff Bezos can get.

• pastacacioepepe 4y ago
  Mostly against the trite argument that net worth != liquidity, it's just reiterated everywhere here so I figured I could comment on any thread. Everyone is just skimping on the fact net worth still grants billionaires more power than entire countries have. That is what people are angry for.
  • popol12 4y ago
    The sole existence of billionaires bothers me a lot, yet I don’t see the issue in rectifying the truth about their fortune being 1 or 2 orders of magnitude smaller than what people believe. But don’t get me wrong, I think they are still way too rich even after accounting for this discount.
    • pastacacioepepe 4y ago
      I agree but I feel this has been rectified over and over, as I'm hearing the argument for years both online and on conventional media. By now it only feels to me as a cheap way to hijack the discussion and derail it further from the fact that we have to debate why billionaires exist and not how liquid they are. In the end the anti-billionaire/anti-system sentiment exists for valid reasons and it doesn't need to be educated to show us that there is an ever growing discontent with the way things work.