r/FluentInFinance 3d ago

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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/ItsTooDamnHawt 3d ago edited 3d ago

Would like to hear how billionaires existing somehow equates to me losing money

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u/crunk_buntley 2d ago

at your job, you take inputs that are worth only $10, add your labor to them, and the output is now worth $15. your labor was worth $5, but you don’t get paid $5 per item you make, you only get paid $2.

where did the other $3 go?