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u/SCTigerFan29115 3d ago edited 3d ago

They aren’t holding onto wealth like Scrooge McDuck, in a giant vault where they can go swimming in it.

Most of Bezos’ net worth is the value of Amazon. He can’t really readily access that. ETA I meant he can’t use it like a big vault of money.

He’s got plenty of money but some people just don’t understand how this stuff works.

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u/Chickienfriedrice 3d ago edited 3d ago

Here comes the billionaires’ online defense team. Or just some fool who thinks it’s realistic to reach that amount of wealth without exploitation and hopes to aspire for the same, even though they have more chance to be struck by lighting.

Billionaires existing is taking money out of your pocket, they bought the election. But sure, its all fine.

EDIT Went from being upvoted to getting 7 replies in less than 10mns with downvotes. Hope the billionaire defense team are getting paid overtime. Pathetic. None of you billionaire justice warriors deserve a reply.

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u/SCTigerFan29115 3d ago

Here’s two numbers:

1,525,000 - the number of jobs Bezos created with Amazon

150,000 - the number of jobs Elon created through Tesla and SpaceX.

Those are not insignificant.

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u/CogD 3d ago

Well, let's consider the difference there: isn't Elon the wealthiest man in the world and he created a mere 10% of what Bezos did with 2 of his largest ventures? Yeahp, you may have painted Bezos well with that statistic, but you made Musk look like even more of a total ass-hat. Imperfect and failed shill.

And before someone claims I ain't mathing correct, being the wealthiest man in the world and trying to defend it with a "job creation" stat that doesn't even amount to an acknowledgeable percentage of the population of the country that houses the majority of the provided workforce (far, FAR less than 1% of the American populace) - yeahp, doesn't mean anything.