Opinion on billionaires.

Stan27 wrote:

Musk worth 100B Bezos worth 200B.

Behind every great wealth, is a great theft!

IAMAMORON wrote: »

It costs € 63,450 a day to park a yacht in Monte Carlo.

No discounts and subject to availability.

http://www.portbooker.com/en/moorings/monaco/principality-of-monaco/fontvieille/port-of-fontvieille

Good luck

That is the cost of a breakfast for the majority of billionaires anyway with waiters and so on on board that yacht of course lol.

Anyway who would want to associate with these moneyed morons anyway.

There is only so much money that you can spend, says I looking at boiler replacement (needed) a new kitchen after twenty years (needed) and so on.

Can pay for everything without borrowing, so fk the billionaires now. LOL

The Simple enough life is good enough for me.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

The staff get a salary for their work don't they?

The staff Create the wealth the owner controls the wealth the staff deserve a high cut of the profits from the wealth they have created.

Ipso wrote:

What did they steal?

Amazon makes little or no money from its delivery service, so its a monopoly in that sector, preventing competitors from well, existing. It lives off the back of public policies that continually increase its value of its assets, particularly it's stock price, of which it shares very little, publicly. Tesla has received billions in public money over the years, so a large proportion of it really should be under public ownership at this stage, same story as amazon as well, regarding stock prices, and you can be damn sure, if either company looks like folding, they ll be bailed out, with public money, again!

I don't envy them their fortune, it is what they do with it regarding their employees that is important to me.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

They work hard, most of the really rich ones are obsessive about getting shít done..

Even if you worked 18 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year for 70 years, you’d have to earn 2,180 an hour to get to a billion. And that’s before taxes or anything else, and not to mention the people who are worth many multiples of that. Is anyone’s work really worth 2,180 an hour, at a sustained rate? Is getting shït done in e-commerce or luxury vehicles worth that money? If we’re not paying the people who do really heroic, meaningful stuff anywhere near that kind of money, should anybody be worth that?

I’ve no problem with people being rewarded for hard work, but there has to come a point where the money just doesn’t matter any more, and amassing the wealth just becomes obscene, and indicative of a major problem in the system.

Wanderer78 wrote: »

All staff from both amazon and tesla should receive an extra bonus of stock options

Yes that would be an excellent idea.

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »

It's a competition to see who can die with the most stuff.

I know plenty of very wealthy people. You would be surprised how many of them seem to envy the lives of certain average everyday people. The biggest thing that always shocks me, is how bored many of them seem to be. Having vast amounts of wealth can make you very isolated from others.

Yes, but they tend to be empty people to begin with.

Nobody has any real excuse to be bored, it's up to you how you fill your time productively. That goes for billionaires too.

Mad_maxx wrote: »

its like saying the people who work in a factory bottling antibiotics today deserve as much credit as alexander fleming , the inventor of penicilin

They do.
Could you have penicillin without key workers?

Cyrus wrote: »

That’s a bit simplistic

The key staff will get options and make a lot of money but the warehouse workers aren’t creating the wealth, it’s the concept that creates the wealth . The majority of the workers are easily and quickly replaceable .

All staff are key staff.

Without the warehouse staff who would work in the warehouse.
The majority of the workers are easily and quickly replaceable because some employers are allowed to get away with this.

mick087 wrote: »

All staff are key staff.

Not true. Some jobs are kind of useless.

My Dad's first job was to push the button for people on a lift.

They live on another planet and rarely have contact with normal humans. Its why they seem so odd. They don't seem to have much personality. I guess you don't need one if you are rich. They seem boring and odd. Bit awkward.

We can't imagine how the 10% live. Its another world. It's why Paris Hilton seems so alien to us. We kind of laugh at them ....but really they are just different and probably normal for where they come from.

Cultural diffs and shocks etc.