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Bezos had to start off somewhere. People get overly fixated with billionaires and I have no idea why. His wealth is based on the value of Amazon. He doesn't really have much money. If Amazon went BK tomorrow he would have next to nothing.
Winco is an interesting story. Here is an article on it.
Bezos had to start off somewhere.
Just a small loan of a quarter million dollars from his parents to bail out his failing company, which one would be hard-pressed to imagine he would have even had that much success in founding if not for his wealthy parents supporting his upbringing as they did.
And 50K for 19 other people. That is how capitalism works.
Wealthy? I grew up poor as hell and my parents had that in either retirement accounts, pension accounts and equity. Though I would have never asked them for that since for every Amazon there are hundreds who didn't make it.
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I didn’t come from entrenched wealth. I followed the blue print of work hard and smart. I’ve done well.
It’s not hard to make it in capitalism if you stop worrying about what others have and focus on your life. Most people just can’t stop trying to compete with the joneses.
I’ve been to communist countries. I’d much rather live in a capitalist country. Being equally poor and starving doesn’t interest me at all.
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Not sure if you’ve ever been to Cuba but it’s not the poster boy for communism. It’s a very poor country and people are malnourished. I’ve been there several times.
Nice people but very impoverished.
Compared to Jamaica or the Bahamas; it was jarring.
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/01/americas/cuba-fuel-shortage-cutbacks-intl-latam/index.html
What I saw was matched with facts. Here are just a few cites.
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Cuba has a longer life expectancy, America is winning hard.
This is ironically a poor sales pitch, unless you believe that networking, marketing, and familial wealth should be what orders society.
And I never said that 250k was all they had, and in fact being able to throw that much money at something is going to be less and less of a concern the more money you have, though I don't think his family was "poor as hell" to start with. Unfortunately for this point, their finances at the time are not publicized that I can find.
It’s all part of how society works.
Networking is what has grown my career. People know I deliver and that’s why I make what I make.
I doubt his family was poor as hell but Mine was and could have come up with that. It’s not that much money in the grand scheme of things.
I’m not fan of bezos and still surprised by his success. It’s a model that somehow he got to work and as a business person I don’t like him.
But he didn’t steal profits. The company burns cash like crazy and has brief moments of profitability. Yet people keep buying into the Ponzi scheme.
It’s all part of how society works.
I said should, not does.
But he didn’t steal profits.
Back then, he used a considerable amount of money to run at a loss. Nowadays, he does steal a remarkable level of profits in the unpaid wages of the employees who keep winding up in the news for being forced to piss in bottles or drive to work in a hurricane.
Now days he’s not part of the company.
As I said I’m no fan of how Amazon is run. Why id never work there. I use them as a poster child for work reform.
Now days he’s not part of the company.
I don't think this all happened right when he retired in 2021
Maybe I am incorrect but I thought he washed his hands of it. He just wants to fly penis rocket ships and buy absurd boats to float around in with his girlfriend.
He started out with a small loan of $250,000 from his parents, in 90s $s if memory serves.
You're just a
aren't you? Lazy workers could be billionaires if they just triedIt is possible they could have. You make it sound like 250K is a lot of money. That isn't one half of year of wages.
250k is a lot of money. It was more even more money in the 90s. Its an exceptionally large amount of money to recieve for free straight from your parents.
People don't become billionaires from working. They become billionaires by taking profit from the surplus value of other peoples work.
But you believe in a propagandized version of capitaliam where everyone could equally become a billionaire, its a meritocracy, you're all jealous and lazy of our deserving overlords
250K isn't that much money. Maybe to you but to the average person it isn't.
You don't even get how billionaires are made. LOL. They didn't take the profit from anyone. Amazon doesn't give a dividend.
Their wealth is based on the value of the company which is truly arbitrary. Since people are not expecting to make money from a dividend, it's all made up.
It is why Amazon could drop in value tomorrow if people felt it wasn't going to continue to climb in value. The only way to make money is still sell the shares.
250K isn't that much money. Maybe to you but to the average person it isn't.
Completely out-of-touch.
$250,000 isn't a lot of money to the average person
Thats literally 5-6x the median annual income what the hell are you smoking. That is a life changing amount of money to most of the country.
they didn't take the profit from anyone
They took that profit from the people working there. Profit is the difference between expenses and income. In order to turn a profit companies cannot pay workers what their work earns the company, there has to be a difference. In economic parlance this difference is referred to as surplus value being generated by the workers for the company. If workers were paid what they were worth then the profit margin of that company would be 0% but those people would all be paid more than they are now. Whether you think the workers are entitled to the full value of what they create is an ideological determination that I will judge you for.
Maybe you haven’t paid attention but Amazon didn’t product a profit for years. Amazon carries a large amount of debt. Their value is all potential of what could happen and it’s mainly smoke and mirrors.
1: didn't touch that for some reason
2: I am aware they ran on venture capital. You didn't address where they take their profit from now that they've achieved their dream near-monopoly status. That status that would have been impossible without their thousands of employees to begin with.
Lol eat shit, lib
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The average US worker has a salary of $46,800 (in 2018) before taxes. Assuming they saved everything and spent nothing, it would take over 5 years for them to make 250k. Again, this is before taxes, and without spending anything. For the vast majority of people, 250k is a lot of money.
Assuming you earned a million dollars every year, it would take 1000 years to earn your first billion dollars.
It's not possible to become a billionaire simply through working, as humans do not live that long.
That assuming they had no growth of the money.
Oh you’ll never save your way to billionaire status. That requires building a company or using the market
Exactly. So you agree that it's impossible to earn and save a billion dollars just by working hard. It requires either exploiting your workers by stealing their surplus value, or by using the market by short-selling, using hedge funds, trading through illegal offshore numbered accounts, derivatives, etc.
or by using the market by short-selling, using hedge funds, trading through illegal offshore numbered accounts, derivatives, etc.
Which is also just stealing surplus value by proxy, since return on investment is simply a share of the company's profits, which is itself just surplus value, or unpaid labor.
I don’t believe workers are exploited. I sell my labor and I can sell it whoever I want for whatever price I want.
I’m not exploited at all. In communism I’d Be forced to accept what they think is fair. That’s exploitation.
If I don't take what my boss offers I will starve to death and die. That is not what I would consider a strong bargaining position. I can go to the other company that I could work at but they both work together to keep wages low. I have no power to improve my status because the system is rigged against me and every worker like me
Yeaaaa delete that shit, coward
If wealth were actually distributed in the US equally that might be true, but as it is it's more than double what most Americans have, even ignoring inflation.
The average net worth of all American families was $746,820, according to the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, while the median figure was $121,760.
— The Average Net Worth Of Americans—By Age, Education And Ethnicity
Ok then go ahead and lend me $250k right now. I promise I'll pay it back.
Let’s see your business plan. If you are the next bezos it’d be the smartest move to make.
I'm not telling you my business plan before I receive the money
since he deleted it, here's what this loser wrote:
250k isn't that much money. Maybe to you but to the average person it isn't.
You don't even get how billionaires are made. LOL. They didn't take the profit from anyone. Amazon doesn't give a dividend.
Their wealth is based on the value of the company which is truly arbitrary. Since people are not expecting to make money from a dividend, it's all made up.
It is why Amazon could drop in value tomorrow if people felt it wasn't going to continue to climb in value. The only way to make money is still sell the shares.
Their wealth is based on the value of the company which is truly arbitrary
And this was supposed to be an argument for billionaires deserving their wealth?
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I'm legit trying to figure out the logic that determined which of his posts he should delete and which ones he shouldn't. Seems like it's whatever was getting a lot of replies, but also some other random ones for fun?
