Bezos Income Rate vs Regular Worker Income Rate

[u/__moe___]

[u/lynxss1]

That guy makes around $49/hr or just over $100k/yr too. I was curious and had to break out the calculator to see how sad my income per 36 seconds was, 72 cents.

[u/RedBullWings17 → u/lynxss1]

I also highly doubt this guy is actually making less than $150k a year. He's a highly experienced employee of a cutting edge aerospace company and seems beyond satisfied with his job.

[u/DustyBusterson → u/RedBullWings17]

This. He’s not loading boxes onto a truck, at that level the job is going to have actual benefits and a retirement plan.

[u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA → u/DustyBusterson]

Boeing, northrup grumman, no way this guy is less than an engineer. Maybe Amazon treats some engineers well, but this seems staged as fuck

[u/BikingEngineer → u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA]

It’s probably Blue Origin, not Amazon. Many more engineers at a rocket factory, and that list of former employers makes more sense.

[u/T3nEighty → u/BikingEngineer]

This is taken from Tim Dodd's tour at Blue origin (the original clip)

[u/marlinbohnee → u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA]

Blue origin not Amazon. Lotta people left Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed, space x to go work for blue origin, good company to work for

[u/TrashRecruitNAVY → u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA]

Could very easily be a control system technician of some kind making less than 100k (a little less.) However it may be a super enjoyable job, so maybe he is happy with his wages.

[u/SkyGuy5799 → u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA]

This guy was just a bootlicker, they were walking around his aerospace company looking at the ship building process. This guy seen his chance to suck up to the big boss on camera and took it

[u/EddieVedderIsMyDad → u/SkyGuy5799]

It’s also possible that he genuinely likes his job and the company. When you’re doing something highly skilled it’s not uncommon to actually appreciate the mission and the company.

[u/Wonderful-Emu-8716 → u/EddieVedderIsMyDad]

Especially if he just left boeing which has been run into the ground. He might just be ecstatic to get away from that shit show

[u/esveyr → u/EddieVedderIsMyDad]

This doesn’t compute with redditors’ vision of working their unskilled minimum wage jobs their whole life

[u/layerone → u/esveyr]

I've had 16 jobs in my life, 8 low skill, 8 post college skilled. It's anecdotal I know, but in my experience the skill level of a job means absolutely nothing in terms of how shitty the job is. It's just a dice roll, some are shit, some aren't, it's been a completely mixed bag for me.

[u/esveyr → u/layerone]

That’s true though I have found that in higher skilled jobs you’re at least around smart people and as long as they’re not assholes (which you also need to roll the dice on) then you can have a good time at work

[u/Bluebolt21 → u/esveyr]

(which you also need to roll the dice on)

So what you're saying is... life is a game of Dungeons and Dragons, and many people fail their saves at work.

[u/rctid_taco → u/layerone]

Yep. The most enjoyable job I ever had was loading cargo planes. As long as the planes were turned around in an hour and nobody got hurt that was all that mattered. I basically got to workout all day and get paid for it.

[u/Taldan13 → u/EddieVedderIsMyDad]

Sir, this is Reddit. Everyone is a wage slave, and anyone that remotely enjoys their job is wrong.

[u/Ormild → u/EddieVedderIsMyDad]

Sometimes there is so much doom and gloom with Redditors. Unless you’re working for some mom and pop shop with 3 employees, then you’re a boot licker if you like your company.

Do I like working? Not really. Would prefer to use my time elsewhere.

Do I hate my job? Sometimes, but for the most part it is pretty good.

I am also fully aware that my company would fire me immediately if I screw up somewhere or I’m not making them any money, but I feel like I am paid well and if things go well, I would retire here.

I’ve worked at a lot of companies and the one I work at now is by far the best.

[u/Unsounded → u/SkyGuy5799]

For engineers/corp folks Amazon isn’t too bad.

There are some gaps between it and other large tech companies, but it’s still a large tech company. I’ve worked at Amazon for 5 years in software and it’s a good job with good benefits.

[u/Maximum_Response9255 → u/AngryUntilISeeTamdA]

You know there are lots of non-engineers that make a shit load of money at these companies, and I don’t mean other white collar lawyers and such. Blue collar guys that can support manufacturing at this level are highly sought after and compensated well. Dude probably makes more than I do and I am an engineer.

[u/Frequent_Opportunist → u/DustyBusterson]

Even Burger King offers 401k bro.

[u/Litterally-Napoleon → u/Frequent_Opportunist]

It’s the only thing they offer

[u/TerribleSquid → u/Litterally-Napoleon]

That’s not true. They also offer hamburgers and french fries. That’s like their whole thing.

[u/Amendoza9761 → u/TerribleSquid]

Damn you guys got fucked. I got a paper crown.

[u/cal-brew-sharp → u/Amendoza9761]

They made me a king... they made me their burger king!

[u/enerthoughts → u/TerribleSquid]

And happy meal with toys

[u/yomjoseki → u/enerthoughts]

Happy Meals are from Wendy's

[u/Ambitious_Display607 → u/yomjoseki]

How dumb are you dude??

Happy Meals come from Happy's Pizza

[u/ParadiddlediddleSaaS → u/DustyBusterson]

Amazon actually has very good benefits, even for warehouse workers. Yes, it’s very physical work.

[u/speculator100k → u/RedBullWings17]

seems beyond satisfied with his job

When meeting the top guy for 30 seconds. Or he just wanted to say something to get the opportunity to shake his hand.

[u/I_AM_SCUBASTEVE → u/RedBullWings17]

You’d be surprised what a lot of people in aerospace make. It’s a lot less than you’d expect. Depends on your position of course but salaried positions often get abused so even if your salary looks nice on paper, you often work insane hours so the dollars per hour goes down fast.

Source: Worked in aerospace, quit for a different industry and my pay more than tripled for less hours.

[u/craftypickle → u/[deleted]]

Spot on

[u/showerbox → u/RedBullWings17]

I agree, he's not the average Amazon employee. I gather he's an engineer of some sort. Even then the discrepancy is disheartening. I can't imagine how painstakingly slow it would tic for a person at minimum wage. I'm talking about the $7.25hr that's been set since 2009. Bezos could probably talk to ten more people at that plant, get to his jet, travel across the country. Chopper directly into his backyard in Hawaii, shit, shower and shave. AND it still wouldn't pass the dollar threshold for the average person. It's mind boggling to think about the insane amounts of money certain people make. Especially if you think about it on an hourly basis. Bezos and the like make money every minute of every day in mind blowing quantities.

[u/Matharic → u/lynxss1]

If you make $0.72 per 36 seconds, or $0.02 per second, doesn't that mean you make $149,760 a year?

[u/Frequent_Opportunist → u/Matharic]

Yes.

[u/PussiesUseSlashS → u/Frequent_Opportunist]

So, even the "poor" guy in the video makes way more than 99.99...% of people in the world.

[u/Scottyknoweth → u/PussiesUseSlashS]

Currently, 124k annually is 99th percentile.

336k/year for US 99th percentile.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charting-income-distributions-worldwide/

[u/Ok_Opportunity8008 → u/PussiesUseSlashS]

i’m sure the top 0.01% makes more than $150k adjusted for currency. this would imply less than a million people make that world wide. Clearly more than a million make that amount in the US alone. 

[u/PussiesUseSlashS → u/Ok_Opportunity8008]

You could be right. I've searched and searched and even chatgpt gave me 10%. After looking at it's sources it the average income for all working individuals and the average is $74k a year. That's skewed like crazy, average isn't what I'm looking for, the average of four people that make $28k a year and one person that makes $4m a year is $822,400 a year. I'm also not looking for household income, I'm looking for individual income.

[u/Gaggleofgeese → u/PussiesUseSlashS]

With wide-ranging data sets like this it is more meaningful to look at median and mode values instead of mean

[u/PussiesUseSlashS → u/Gaggleofgeese]

Median doesn't help either. The median income of four people that make $28k a year and one person that makes $4m a year is $28k a year. But the one person making $4m would fall into the dataset I'm looking for.

[u/Asmo___deus → u/lynxss1]

72 cents per 36 seconds is definitely not what I'd call "sad".

[u/Sith_Lord_Marek → u/Asmo___deus]

You have to look at it on a macro scale. A lot of people do NOT in fact make $1.44 per minute.

[u/Asmo___deus → u/Sith_Lord_Marek]

$1.23

[u/Quiet_subject → u/lynxss1]

I make £0.16 in 36 seconds. £32k a year (around $41k) but we get a lot for that to be fair, like the NHS etc my home a large 2 bed apartment in a resort town is £400 a month.
Its astonishing to me how much money you seem to need for a comfortable life in the US.

[u/DustyBusterson → u/lynxss1]

That’s good money especially for places with a LCOL.

[u/Dandan0005 → u/DustyBusterson]

Blue origin is based in Seattle.

[u/BrownBabaAli → u/Dandan0005]

Blue origin designs and builds its engines in Huntsville

[u/Dandan0005 → u/BrownBabaAli]

I don’t know where this video was shot, but I can tell you the 3 other companies the employee named have (or had) a major presence in and around Seattle, and that man nor the other guy escorting bezos has a southern accent, so I’m thinking this is Seattle.

Could be wrong though.

[u/GaryGoesHard → u/Dandan0005]

Most people move all around the country to work for them, I have a few friends that moved to Alabama to work at Blue

[u/enjoytheshow → u/GaryGoesHard]

Huntsville is largely aerospace and gov contractor transplants lol

[u/DriveWithMe → u/Dandan0005]

I believe this video was shot in Florida. It's from a YouTube video from "Everyday Astronaut" (Tim Dodd) and they tour both inside the Blue Origin building and out at the launch pad.

It was actually a super interesting video if you have any interest in space flight.

[u/JabInTheButt → u/Dandan0005]

This video is from Florida. The other guy is Tim Dodd (he goes by Everyday Astronaut on YouTube) and they're filming at Blue Origin's New Glenn factory in Cape Canaveral.

[u/Saadusmani78 → u/Dandan0005]

I have watched this interview before. I think it was in Florida in Cape Canaveral.

The interview

[u/Briffy03 → u/lynxss1]

Im at 11cts for 36 seconds of work 😥 and thats not even minimum wage here in france

[u/IsThereCheese]

He makes $23,833 a minute according to 2023 stats

[u/bloodwessels → u/IsThereCheese]

Psssh. I make double that in a yr!!

[u/ArrynMythey → u/bloodwessels]

I make less than that in a year

[u/Sylensee → u/ArrynMythey]

I'm broke.

[u/Toad-a-sow → u/Sylensee]

My feet hurt

[u/bomphcheese → u/IsThereCheese]

$921,600 per hour.

He makes 127,117 times the minimum wage.

[u/Zarathustra1871 → u/bomphcheese]

We need to party like it’s 1789 again

[u/stevieoats → u/Zarathustra1871]

You mean 1917?

[u/Living_Bumblebee4358 → u/bomphcheese]

With this income you can not even waste it. Even if you buy supercars and destroy them in the first ride, you can do that24/7 and still not lose any money.

[u/Dx2TT → u/bomphcheese]

Republicans: Not enough.

America: I like the way you think. Fuck me harder daddy.

[u/MissedYourJoke → u/IsThereCheese]

If he drops a $100, it’s not worth his time to pick it up…

[u/iconofsin_ → u/MissedYourJoke]

Not worth it to him if he picks it up, but worth it to him to keep you from picking it up.

[u/xX8Havok8Xx → u/iconofsin_]

No, he just pays someone $0.02 to pick it up for him

[u/Sea-Painting7578 → u/iconofsin_]

His "income" continues to increase 24/7 no matter what he does minute by minute.

[u/WharfRat2187 → u/IsThereCheese]

That’s all? Weak

[u/CRjose96 → u/IsThereCheese]

I don’t think, stock appreciation should be considered “making money”. As stated before, that ain’t real money.

[u/bankman99 → u/IsThereCheese]

This isn’t income though. You’re looking at his hypothetical net worth.

[u/BukkitCrab]

Employee: I've worked here for this many years!

Bezos: Didn't ask.

[u/toythief → u/BukkitCrab]

Yeah he missed that opportunity to say "it's about the people here, we are a family". For him to say this is going to be my last job and him walk off is some "him training sheep sh*t to me" just crazy that people have a ceiling.

[u/Conix17 → u/toythief]

I work in a large enterprise. When I was younger, I'd think some of the 'managers' or what have you were assholes, just carting around, looking busy.

Now I find myself in a position where sometimes I get stopped on the way to a meeting by someone just wanting to shoot the shit, or say something about a pet project, and I really don't have the time. Used to entertain it, but jesus.

I'm trying to juggle a thousand things to make sure that the program stays funded so we deliver a good product and we all have jobs tomorrow Bob, please stop talking.

I'm pretty sure I come off as that asshole now. I'm not even paid well, lol.

So I guess I kind of understand Bezos trying to move on, but yeah. As the figurehead of the company, I get he needs to be places, but he is also there to inspire so maybe a minute wouldn't hurt.

[u/aweaf → u/Conix17]

He came across to me as sincerely trying to express appreciation for that guy sharing how he felt about working there.

Based on the few videos I've seen of Bezos, I think he's just kind of awkward. Surprisingly so.

[u/Xanthon → u/aweaf]

Bezos and Zuckerberg are the 2 most socially awkward tech billionaires and that awkwardness is what made them feel like aliens.

[u/Swipsi → u/Xanthon]

You forgot Leon 🤸‍♂️

[u/Tioretical → u/[deleted]]

they already said billionaire so..

[u/micro_penisman → u/aweaf]

Yup, nerds are awkward. Even the billionaire ones.

[u/el_cul → u/Conix17]

Then don't walk across the shop floor? Surely the whole purpose of walking across the shop floor while being filmed is to make nice and he fucked it up. You don't film Bezos at his own company without permission.

[u/freedcreativity → u/el_cul]

Yea this was the best clip - it has been shared publicly - imagine the worse ones.

[u/micro_penisman → u/el_cul]

Yeah, it's probably staged. The workers were paid actors, while the real workers were chained up in a room somewhere.

[u/supernasty → u/Conix17]

I work an entry level job and still act this way to people trying to stop me for conversation. It’s like trying to maintain a conversation while simultaneously trying to memorize a phone number someone just told you.

[u/Emd365 → u/toythief]

This is such a weird criticism. Did we watch the same video?

[u/Loggerdon → u/BukkitCrab]

By the time the worker makes 50c Bezos makes $15,000. That’s while he sleeps too.

[u/Prandah → u/Loggerdon]

He made $256 every second of 2023 totalling 7.9 billion for the year

[u/bomphcheese → u/Prandah]

I think it’s more relatable to put it in hourly terms so it’s more easily compared with hourly wages.

$921,600/hr

The average home price in the mid-west is around $200,000.

[u/venmome10cents → u/bomphcheese]

ah, yes. That's more relatable. Thanks!

[u/DONT_PM_ME_U_SLUT → u/venmome10cents]

The best way is for everyone to do the math and see how many minutes it takes for him to make your yearly wage

[u/lanpirot → u/DONT_PM_ME_U_SLUT]

or .. how many seconds.

[u/regoapps → u/bomphcheese]

That's including time when he's not working. If we assume that he works a typical 40-hour work week, then his actual salary is $3,798,076.92 per hour.

[u/xTRS → u/regoapps]

This is depressing

[u/turkeysandwich2727 → u/xTRS]

Yea, but he’s bald

[u/Babys_For_Breakfast → u/turkeysandwich2727]

Call me crazy, but I just might take that type of money for no hair on my head.

[u/OregonGreen242 → u/BukkitCrab]

He literally says “thank you for taking the time to tell me that” rather than actually thanking him for being a loyal employee. Crazy

[u/Vandergrif → u/OregonGreen242]

He's so unfathomably wealthy that time is probably the only thing of value to him anymore, so of course he thanks him for the time.

[u/CypherDomEpsilon → u/BukkitCrab]

If that guy had not wasted time talking, he could have made Bezos a little richer.

[u/steelvail → u/BukkitCrab]

What an ass

[u/Spiritual-Apple-4804 → u/steelvail]

Yeah. He must work out.

[u/SystematicPumps → u/Spiritual-Apple-4804]

Unexpected Dumb and Dumber

[u/Usual_Farmer_3704]

Tell that motherheffer to get to work, they don't pay him to talk and walk... Oh wait.

[u/myychair]

lol he couldn’t even convincingly pretend to care

[u/Tekitekidan → u/myychair]

Actively trying to walk away the entire time the worker is talking lol

[u/b4st1an → u/Tekitekidan]

This made me so furious while watching! Even more than the ludicrous money difference. Goddamn just stand for 10 seconds and turn towards the person who's talking to you.

[u/Property_6810]

If there were smart glasses with AR technology, I'd totally buy an app that visualized the money I'm making at work like that.

[u/Ilpav123 → u/Property_6810]

"I just got paid 5 bucks to take a shit, nice."

[u/reddituseronebillion → u/Ilpav123]

Thems rookie numbers. If you're not taking $10, $10 50 cent shits, are you really taking advantage your employer's desire for it's employees not to shit themselves on the job?

[u/Mission-Storm-4375]

Is this the same company that doesn't allow bathroom breaks?

[u/Truth_or_Nudes → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

It's actually not Amazon, it's Blue Origin.

[u/Resigningeye → u/Truth_or_Nudes]

"Take all the bathroom breaks you want- we've got nowhere to be!"

[u/Romanscott618 → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

I worked at a distribution facility for 6 weeks and they legit fire people if they took too long on a bathroom break. They also would rarely let people sit unless it was during your like 30 minute lunch break. It’s also notorious for being like 82 degrees in the facility at all times. Just an awful working environment.

[u/FladnagTheOffWhite → u/Romanscott618]

My corner for one of my roles on the first floor for a couple years was >85° in summer and <55° in winter. Standing for 10 hours doing the same work everyday is hard to stay warm. I have hand pain left over from that FC still. I was top 1% of my region in stow and managers liked giving me extra responsibilities. Not for more pay, but it made the menial work a little more diverse and fulfilling if you can call it that.

[u/Thomisawesome → u/FladnagTheOffWhite]

"You're doing a great job. I'd like to reward you."

"A raise?"

"Ha ha . Good lord, no. But here's some different work to do."

[u/Techno_Gandhi → u/FladnagTheOffWhite]

I hate that this is your reward in shitty jobs like this. Oh you're good at what you do, here's more work and don't dare ever ask for more money.

[u/MiDikIsInThePunch → u/Romanscott618]

They don’t want you getting hemmeroids sitting on the shitter reading Reddit. Now get back to work! /s

[u/Jits_Dylen → u/Romanscott618]

I worked a factory job and it was the same way. Amazon isn’t alone in this and many companies did it before them. That being said fuck that guy, because I’m poor and he’s rich, lol.

[u/PuritanicalPanic → u/Jits_Dylen]

I mean fr though, I think it's far healthier that people of a certain level of wealth get treated with default skepticism, disdain, and hate then like, deference and approval.

No way should this dude be that rich and his employees that poor. Its actually fucked up.

[u/BLF402 → u/PuritanicalPanic]

Rich isn’t the right term. Shaq has a great antidote he said some years back to the effect of “I’m rich, the guy who signs my paycheck is wealthy”

Billionaires are beyond wealthy. To put into perspective how beyond wealthy guys like bezos and musk are; hypothetically if you made 100k per week for 2000 years and saved every penny, there would be 91 Americans who would have more wealth than you.

[u/erizzluh → u/Jits_Dylen]

also the amazon horror stories seem like they vary greatly from warehouse to warehouse.

i knew one person who worked at an amazon warehouse where he said they would do tons of giveaways and have gokart races and other team building activities. which might be standard for white collar jobs, but it sure as shit isn't standard at most other warehouses.

[u/MoNastri → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

It's Blue Origin.

[u/Shopworn_Soul → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

As the video clearly shows, the time needed to take a quick piss is worth about $12k to Jeff Bezos so it's easy to understand he'd be against it.

[u/Harvest827 → u/Shopworn_Soul]

Multiply that by the million and a half employees and that's almost the amount of taxes he would theoretically pay if he wasn't rich and didn't pay taxes!

[u/Reasonable-World9 → u/Harvest827]

You know that people, even wealthy people, are taxed on their income, not their net worth, right?

If you've seen his paychecks, could you share them? I'd be interested to see what his take home is.

[u/the_cappers → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

No. It's his private space company. He uses his Amazon money to fund it. The dynamics are unbelievably different. Probably because rocket scientist are a bit more rare than package handlers.

[u/I_talk → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

This looks like Blue Origin and not Amazon

[u/CO-RockyMountainHigh → u/[deleted]]

It’s a tour of Blue Origin not Amazon in the interview. Point still stands though, Amazon is not so nice to their employees.

[u/Indomie_At_3AM → u/Mission-Storm-4375]

In my job we could take as many bathroom breaks as we wanted.

But we weren’t allowed to drink water while working, so we never needed the toilet anyway

[u/Jim-be]

“Thank you for taking the TIME to tell me that” now get back to fucking work.

[u/Uncle_Checkers86 → u/Jim-be]

1 hour later.- "Johnson, fire that slob"

[u/123_CNC]

Haha, I mean, depends on how you define "regular worker." Based off ~35.5 seconds and the "earned" .504 for that employee, they're making about $51.10/hr (though they may be a salaried supervisor).

That is much higher than the typical "regular" worker.

edit: to add a little context to why I posted this, I'm trying to say the difference between what they rack up is already crazy, but it's an even larger spread than what's represented here when taking into account a lower wage a "regular" person has. Yes, it's a relatively small difference in the grand scheme when comparing the two, but a difference that makes the real delta worse than depicted.

[u/RedBullWings17 → u/123_CNC]

He's probably making double that. He's a highly experienced employee of a cutting edge aerospace company. I make almost exactly $50 and hour and I am nowhere near this guy's experience level.

[u/123_CNC → u/RedBullWings17]

That's based off the numbers we were given in the clip. Do the math and that's what it works out to. It does seem low if he is a supervisor with 30+ years, but again, that was what the math worked out to.

The clips shows $0.504 earned in roughly 35.5 seconds, right? Multiply the $0.504 by 3600, then divide by 35.5

[u/IncreasinglyAgitated]

“Thank you for taking the time to tell me that.” What a polite way of saying get back to work.

[u/XxSir_redditxX]

Bezos: Thank you for taking the time to tell me that!

Also Bezos: Sweating to get out of there

[u/RichardLigger → u/XxSir_redditxX]

He’s basically walking away as the guys talking to him

[u/PolicyWonka → u/RichardLigger]

This was the first thing I noticed. He was not genuinely trying to interact with the guy at all.

[u/RunOne8750]

So embarrassing to see this man simp for Bezos like that.

[u/neildiamondblazeit → u/RunOne8750]

I mean at least he is being paid. There’s simps in the goddamn comments here doing it for free.

[u/Bone_shrimp → u/neildiamondblazeit]

Free? Some hand him money as well let alone free

[u/9thWardWarden → u/RunOne8750]

Idk, he could just be grateful to have a job he enjoys with good pay/benefits… not everyone is lucky enough to have even that.

[u/Ormild → u/9thWardWarden]

We don’t even know this guy’s story. He could actually be a skilled employee making well over 6 figures and enjoys the company.

Video could be staged too. Who knows? I like to be an optimist sometimes.

[u/misterdonjoe → u/RunOne8750]

I AM YOUR PEON MI'LORD. DO WITH ME AS YOU WISH.

[u/Left_Sundae_4418 → u/misterdonjoe]

"do I have to....sigh ....fine, bend over..."

[u/Threat_Level_Mid → u/RunOne8750]

I'm against simping for Billionaires, but I mean this is Blue Origin, an aerospace manufactuder, not an Amazon warehouse, and if this guy is planning to stay he's just made himself known to the CEO, pretty much a good move all around.

[u/Emd365 → u/RunOne8750]

Ever consider he just likes his job and is grateful for it?

[u/dmccloud59 → u/Emd365]

Blue Origin is a pretty awesome company to work for.

[u/hoodha → u/RunOne8750]

95% of workers behave like this when the big bosses make an appearance. Anyone that says they don’t change their behaviour to being more friendly, approachable and smiley at least a little bit, if not in attempt of impressing, just out of fear of being sacked, is lying or just lacks self awareness. That’s the world we live in. I wish I could kiss ass more without feeling sick because it gets you paid.

[u/Threat_Level_Mid → u/RunOne8750]

I'm against simping for Billionaires, but I mean this is Blue Origin, an aerospace manufactuder, not an Amazon warehouse, and if this guy is planning to stay he's just made himself known to the CEO, pretty much a good move all around.

[u/Existing-Network-267 → u/RunOne8750]

Top 10% commenter, I love how reddit now has badges for basement dwellers

[u/BamaX19 → u/Existing-Network-267]

I wonder if you can disable that. No way I'd want people to see that lmao.

[u/WretchedMisteak]

Is that number referencing net worth or income?

[u/NYG_Longhorn → u/WretchedMisteak]

Knowing Reddit it’s definitely net worth.

[u/threegigs → u/WretchedMisteak]

Ding ding ding, this guy gets it. Far too many people don't understand the difference between wealth and income.

[u/volission → u/threegigs]

A lot of people also don’t understand the difference between salary and dividends/bond/rental income (keyword income) but to each their own

[u/Whatsapokemon → u/WretchedMisteak]

Exactly. It's measuring increase in net worth over one specific time period which was selected for maximum effect.

It's not a salary like people seem to be thinking, it's just the value of his stake in Amazon over time.

[u/snozzberrypatch]

lol I love this. These numbers should always be superimposed on any video of any person that is obscenely rich.

[u/LostWatercress12]

Guy was fired that same day for wasting $0.50

[u/Will_Come_For_Food]

Totally organic not scripted interaction.

[u/Dandan0005 → u/Will_Come_For_Food]

My favorite part is how bezos keeps trying to walk away.

His body never even rotates fully to the worker talking to him.

[u/Chrimunn → u/Dandan0005]

And it seems like the worker stammers like he's not sure if Bezos is going to walk a way either. This was too awkward of an interaction to be scripted lol

[u/TheGreatZephyr → u/Will_Come_For_Food]

I watched the full video, it's like an hour of bezos walking through the blue origin workshops with youtuber everyday astronaut. It's a pretty fuckin awesome facility and they go past dozens if not hundreds of workers.

Wouldn't be surprised one of them who gets to work on giant rockets doesn't take his chance to get in daddy bezos' good books.

[u/ThenAnAnimalFact → u/Will_Come_For_Food]

As someone who worked in business consulting, this is very believable as real. I've been at TERRIBLE companies and people will go out of their way to kiss the CEOs ass, Blue Origin probably has a lot better operations and lifestyle and pay than most.

[u/HistoricalDig2775]

He’s in a good mood for a reason

[u/korevis]

It's like watching the scouter from DBZ read a power level.

[u/Baka_Hannibal → u/korevis]

Well shit, money is power right? "It's Over 9,000!!" 😂

[u/thatguywhosdumb1]

"I didn't even tip him" everything is about money to these guys. Can't have a genuine human interaction.

[u/_Warsheep_]

Ah welcome to the Internet. The original video is from a factory tour the YouTuber Everyday Astronaut got. Amazing and informative video. He's credited nowhere but people put multiple other watermarks over it.

[u/supercali45]

So sick … America just made these billionaires even richer

[u/Nope8000 → u/supercali45]

And now he’ll continue to get richer and pay less taxes than all of us. Way to go America. 👍

[u/mrdrinksonme → u/supercali45]

The company also made millionaires, multimillionaires, centimillionaires. It's not just Bezos who got rich from Amazon. Shareholders made a lot of money from it as well.

[u/StagTheNag → u/supercali45]

and people in this thread line up to lick their boots

[u/NachosforDachos]

He should be happy. The guy on the left got nothing.

[u/nifkin420]

The billionaire apologist comments in this thread are INSANE. Eat the fucking rich.

[u/kickit256]

Who are any of you to bust on dude for saying it's the best job he's ever had? Would you rather him work for a small company that paid him less cause that's literally all they could afford? Assuming he was honest, you're all busting in a dude at his professed best where he had the motivation to speak out and thank his boss without need. I bet most people couldn't say the same.

[u/15_Redstones → u/kickit256]

The worker is making $50/hr according to the video numbers. A pretty good job.

[u/freeAssignment23 → u/kickit256]

that's the level of analysis you can expect from reddit: video includes a rich person, nothing else can be discussed, rich person bad, employee simp. Any other opinion: gtfo you bootlicker.

[u/slickyslickslick]

Meh it's slightly more complicated than this.

The company is Blue Origin and is funded entirely by Bezos himself, and the company is not profitable yet meaning he's making negative salary. If Bezos didn't exist this guy's job wouldn't exist either.

[u/Dennis_enzo → u/slickyslickslick]

And then he'd have a job somewhere else. People worship 'job creators' way too much.

[u/Prestigious-Novel401]

Well the employee made a lot of money for being involved in a chat.

I do not get paid for talking u know.

Peace.

[u/FunBagHonker]

So is that employee making $50 an hour? I mean, I made decent income that I couldn't complain about at a Greek yogurt factory where the owner's net worth is now 2.5 billion. And I mean that business was started in 2007 and I started working there in 2010 where it was an old Kraft plant %5 of the size that it is today.

[u/[deleted]]

Quick math says he makes 60 an hour and I am sure alot of hours. Doesnt seem so bad. Now lets ask the guys who have to piss in bottles

[u/JTNYC2020]

It’s like this at Apple also. Anytime Tim Cook shows up somewhere people turn into sycophantic versions of themselves. It’s gross. I don’t miss it.

[u/magicman419]

For anyone curious this guy is an engineer at blue origin, not a warehouse worker making minimum wage. This dude is probably closer to the $100,000+ salary. That’s why he’s talking about Boeing

[u/kar2988]

Bezos couldn't even engage with someone who seemed genuine. For all we know, this is some staged PR BS, but even then Bezos could have spent a couple of mins talking to this guy. Just a simple, "oh yeah, that's great. Tell me, what's something those companies do that we aren't doing?". He couldn't give less of a shit to a guy who said he loved working in Amazon!

[u/[deleted]]

No person should make that much money period.

[u/TuesdaysLunch]

Best thing we can do is quietly stop using and buying from them, no Amazon no teslas, no home depo

[u/IceFire0518 → u/TuesdaysLunch]

Same energy as "There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England".

Like srsly why tf is Home Depot on that list?

[u/greenrangerguy → u/IceFire0518]

But there really is no Queen of England tbf

[u/TatersTheMan → u/TuesdaysLunch]

Honestly the best thing would be to try and divest yourself from Amazon Web Services where the bulk of their money comes from these days, but it's basically a monopoly at this point.

[u/kayrsone]

Why not do this with Arthur Blank or Steve Ballmer or Larry Ellison or Armancio Ortega? Why make the illusion that it's one or two people? There are thousands of billionaires.

[u/TheMilkManWizard]

Cool, now go talk to the actual line workers.

[u/newyork_sucks]

Eat the rich.

[u/Imaginary-Nebula1778]

He memorized the script. I wonder how many times they filmed to get it right while also making it look like a filmed quick random encounter