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I see, and how is our god-king mr. bezos allocating his wealth? He's using it to electrify and build out american rail, to reduce dependence on cars? Is he pour

by Kapura 3y ago

I see, and how is our god-king mr. bezos allocating his wealth? He's using it to electrify and build out american rail, to reduce dependence on cars? Is he pouring money into early education so that future generations will be able to make even greater strides to improve society? Or is he, like, buying big boats and houses?

nickpp 3y ago
Most of that wealth is tied in Amazon so he’s “using” it every single day to serve us and provide jobs for all those hundred of thousands of people.
- tfourb 3y ago
  If Bezos were to distribute all his Amazon shares equally between Amazon employees, not a single person would loose their job, but many people would have a significantly better life. Bezo's wealth is essentially unproductive, serving only his personal ability to make his every wish come true. It has no utility for the society at large that couldn't be reproduced by redistributing this wealth more equally throughout society.
  - anter 3y ago
    Yeah, that works wonderfully when it's enforced. That's why the most prosperous countries with the highest quality of life are all communist, just redistribute everything equally from the most productive and everyone becomes rich, simple as that.
    - tfourb 3y ago
      Dude, if you feel the existential urge to write something pithy and sarcastic, kindly do us all a favor and first read the entire thread. You might notice that your well-though out comment has no relation to what was actually said and save us all the embarrassment of having to read it.
salad-tycoon 3y ago
Penis spaceships. Those cost a lot of money. I don’t know of any perfect system, the ones I’ve studied historically always have something. Many modern day systems proclaim to be of the people and for the people but you still end up with this an ultra rich senators or Stalin and starvation and plump nomenklatura political class. Over simplification I know but point is there are always abuses. It sounds nice to say “no one needs this much, let’s give it to the poor” but even there is mass corruption. Remember all those life changing billions donated to Haiti with their last big earthquake? Much of it went poof in fees and siphoning and Haiti is unchanged. I also think it’s easy to emotionally manipulate people into a frenzy “bezos has stolen from us, let’s get our pitchforks and seize his manor” and I feel it too as I scrolled and scrolled. Mind you, I really don’t like bezos and his phallic space machine or his absurd mega yachts that he frivolously wastes resources to disassemble national monument bridges to get out of the shipping docks in Europe. That said, I also don’t have a right to his money. As it was once said “but the poor you will always have with you.” I focus more on treating them in my here and now than fantasies about pitchforks. And as a final point, I support the 99% protests but notice how those all got co-oped and now we speak of racial warfare, gender war, library wars, economic wars, actual wars, and the evergreen ALIEN INVASION IMMINENT LITTLE GREEN MEN HELD BY US GOVT. headlines. So I do hope these discussion come back and I will study the developments.

by Kapura 3y ago

nickpp 3y ago

Most of that wealth is tied in Amazon so he’s “using” it every single day to serve us and provide jobs for all those hundred of thousands of people.

tfourb 3y ago
If Bezos were to distribute all his Amazon shares equally between Amazon employees, not a single person would loose their job, but many people would have a significantly better life. Bezo's wealth is essentially unproductive, serving only his personal ability to make his every wish come true. It has no utility for the society at large that couldn't be reproduced by redistributing this wealth more equally throughout society.
- anter 3y ago
  Yeah, that works wonderfully when it's enforced. That's why the most prosperous countries with the highest quality of life are all communist, just redistribute everything equally from the most productive and everyone becomes rich, simple as that.
  - tfourb 3y ago
    Dude, if you feel the existential urge to write something pithy and sarcastic, kindly do us all a favor and first read the entire thread. You might notice that your well-though out comment has no relation to what was actually said and save us all the embarrassment of having to read it.

salad-tycoon 3y ago

Penis spaceships. Those cost a lot of money. I don’t know of any perfect system, the ones I’ve studied historically always have something. Many modern day systems proclaim to be of the people and for the people but you still end up with this an ultra rich senators or Stalin and starvation and plump nomenklatura political class. Over simplification I know but point is there are always abuses. It sounds nice to say “no one needs this much, let’s give it to the poor” but even there is mass corruption. Remember all those life changing billions donated to Haiti with their last big earthquake? Much of it went poof in fees and siphoning and Haiti is unchanged. I also think it’s easy to emotionally manipulate people into a frenzy “bezos has stolen from us, let’s get our pitchforks and seize his manor” and I feel it too as I scrolled and scrolled. Mind you, I really don’t like bezos and his phallic space machine or his absurd mega yachts that he frivolously wastes resources to disassemble national monument bridges to get out of the shipping docks in Europe. That said, I also don’t have a right to his money. As it was once said “but the poor you will always have with you.” I focus more on treating them in my here and now than fantasies about pitchforks. And as a final point, I support the 99% protests but notice how those all got co-oped and now we speak of racial warfare, gender war, library wars, economic wars, actual wars, and the evergreen ALIEN INVASION IMMINENT LITTLE GREEN MEN HELD BY US GOVT. headlines. So I do hope these discussion come back and I will study the developments.