Jeff Bezos' wealth, visualised
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Jfc
What is the point, this dude has money thats impossible to spend. At what point do you just stop or redirect the income towards something else. I’m not even talking about giving it to people who need it either, like why doesn’t this freaking guy just go start his own country.
What is the point, this dude has money thats impossible to spend. At what point do you just stop or redirect the income towards something else. I’m not even talking about giving it to people who need it either, like why doesn’t this freaking guy just go start his own country.
Can we just split a half? 25k could completely change my life haha
This much obsession with someone else's money is not healthy in the long run and I say this with levels of brokeness that would amounts to negative rice.
Damn, yeah that is me, too. Currently paycheck to paycheck with about $70 in my checking account until tomorrow. Add in my credit card debt from some medical bills and other hardships and I actually owe about a 10th of a grain of rice. =/
I think Bezos is a good man. Guy's trying to make the world a better place, I don't think he's done anything nefarious. And I trust him way more than the government to do something good with his money (call me when the government will grant $10B for fixing climate).
Correct, but he has sold off $1bn+ of his Amazon shares each year for the last few years, iirc, so it's not quite as illiquid as you'd expect these dollar amounts to be
I mean, it's not that we're jealous of his money, but it's fair to question whether it is healthy for society that any one individual can amass this much money and consequently power.
Im okay with that.
The great thing about this is... if we have enough votes come november. That big pile of rice (and other big piles of rice) can change the lives of millions.
People like Bezos have the same pack-rat mentality as someone who owns a hundred cats or whose house is filled with newspapers because they don't want to throw anything out. It's a sickness and we need to start talking about their wealth hoarding in the same way we do for any other object a person can't let go of no matter how inconsequential it ultimately is.
They were spending more than $10b to fix climate, but people like Bezos lobbied and petitioned and got tax cuts that lead to budget cuts that afforded them billions so they can just hand off $10B when the government would've had way more than that allocated through its various agencies that possessed competent people who recognized the threat while assholes stuck their heads in their own asses.
tl;dr people like Bezos is why the government isn't granting $10 billion for climate change, and the end result is that people like Bezos are excessively wealthy.
I say this at someone who is okay with theoretical billionaires. The big problem is that we have too many billionaires and too many of them have too many billions at that.
You have negative rice because we’re here playing scarcity games while Bezos sits on a mountain of rice.
The Bezos name is set for millions of years. Millions. His descendants will found civilizations on new planets.
Im sure he could do a representation of how it looks when the 1% and the rest of america gets taxed accordingly. Maybe do a pile per economic need.
Like the budget of the military, infrastructure, environment, education, ect. All with their different piles of rice.
It would probably take a few days/weeks to sort out though.
Or... just do a pie chart.
lol. Perfect reaction.
I'd rather Bezos and people like him get properly taxed than just pledge to donate some chunk of change to climate change or whatever.