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Topic	Bezos Surpasses $200B
_AdjI_ 08/27/20 3:28:18 PM #16:	Zeus posted... Considering that almost all of the wealth is stock IN HIS OWN COMPANY, once again it's not particularly meaningful. Why do you think this is anything more than a technicality? Do you actually believe Bezos isn't orders of magnitude richer than any human will ever have any need to be even if you only count his liquid assets? That his net worth is not in any way an indicator of the kind of power he holds? No, he doesn't literally have 200 billion dollar bills sitting in a vault somewhere. Nobody actually believes that, as desperately as you seem to enjoy humping that particular strawman. That does not in any way mean that a net worth of $200,000,000,000 is not significant or meaningful, and your insistence on suggesting such nonsense just makes you look like a desperate fanboy hoping that Bezos-senpai will notice you if you spend enough time defending him against people criticising the obscene degree to which he has hoarded wealth. It's terribly silly and you should stop it immediately. SirPikachu posted... Cool. Amazon provides amazing and cheap service and people love using it. He made a damn good product that makes him a lot of money, it's his money to use. Stop advocating for stealing people's money just because they're good at making it. Nobody's suggesting that Bezos doesn't deserve to make a lot of money. He's provided a service that has proven to be very successful and profitable, and as a result, he absolutely deserves to live out the rest of his life in complete luxury, never wanting for anything or needing to work another day in his life to sustain that. He does not, however, deserve to be able to live out 10,000 such lives. Nobody deserves that, nor will anybody ever be able to deserve that because nobody will ever be able to live 10,000 lives. That is a ridiculous, meaningless amount of wealth, and there is absolutely no value in a system that not only permits such hoarding, but actively encourages it. I'm not about to suggest trying to claw back the money he's already made, since that would just be messy and convoluted, but the system that has permitted him and his fellow multibillionaires to become so meaninglessly wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country/world is broken and needs to be fixed to prevent the problem from continuing and repeating itself. <cite>_AdjI_ posted [p:943893602] in Bezos Surp... [t:78936036]...</cite> <quote>Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>Considering that almost all of the wealth is stock IN HIS OWN COMPANY, once again it's not particularly meaningful.</quote> Why do you think this is anything more than a technicality? Do you actually believe Bezos isn't orders of magnitude richer than any human will ever have any need to be even if you only count his liquid assets? That his net worth is not in any way an indicator of the kind of power he holds? No, he doesn't literally have 200 billion dollar bills sitting in a vault somewhere. Nobody actually believes that, as desperately as you seem to enjoy humping that particular strawman. That does not in any way mean that a net worth of $200,000,000,000 is not significant or meaningful, and your insistence on suggesting such nonsense just makes you look like a desperate fanboy hoping that Bezos-senpai will notice you if you spend enough time defending him against people criticising the obscene degree to which he has hoarded wealth. It's terribly silly and you should stop it immediately. SirPikachu posted... </cite> <quote>Cool. Amazon provides amazing and cheap service and people love using it. He made a damn good product that makes him a lot of money, it's his money to use. Stop advocating for stealing people's money just because they're good at making it.</quote> Nobody's suggesting that Bezos doesn't deserve to make a lot of money. He's provided a service that has proven to be very successful and profitable, and as a result, he absolutely deserves to live out the rest of his life in complete luxury, never wanting for anything or needing to work another day in his life to sustain that. He does not, however, deserve to be able to live out 10,000 such lives. Nobody deserves that, nor will anybody ever be able to deserve that because nobody will ever be able to live 10,000 lives. That is a ridiculous, meaningless amount of wealth, and there is absolutely no value in a system that not only permits such hoarding, but actively encourages it. I'm not about to suggest trying to claw back the money he's already made, since that would just be messy and convoluted, but the system that has permitted him and his fellow multibillionaires to become so meaninglessly wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country/world is broken and needs to be fixed to prevent the problem from continuing and repeating itself. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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