• lime!@feddit.nu
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    5 days ago

    yeah he could have spent those 0.3% of his net worth on giving those people *checks notes* one and a half week’s pay each instead.

    don’t get me wrong, dollar billionaires shouldn’t exist and bezos is definitely among the worst, but focusing on the money he spends rather than how the people still working for him are treated feels backwards.

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      I’m going to hazard a guess he makes close to 0.3% in interest per week, meaning he could employvthose people on his own passive income without even noticing.

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          5 days ago

          Metaphorical interest. The percent capital gains on his stocks is well over that. It still functions as passive income. I am surprised that had to be explicitly extrapolated.

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      90% of his ner worth is in 300 p/e stocks.

      The money doesn’t exist. It’s all speculation. The second you tried to cash those stocks the value would plumit 90% overnight, and nothing good would be able to be bought with the cash after that.

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        5 days ago

        And yet, is he treated by other gigantically rich people and institutions as if this is true?

        You’re arguing the pedantic point, something like “he doesn’t really have that many dollars, you said dollars!” while (I guess deliberately ignoring?) the OBVIOUS, clear way him and others like him wield influence and power.

        Everyone who makes him actually powerful, by lending to him and facilitating it all (by hoping to profit along the way), understands his net worth better than you do. Kinda de facto, by being in his spheres in the first place.

        What is it you think you’re adding here?