Why do people feel they are entitled to the money of others?

Bezos started from nothing, selling some books. What he has built is impressive. I love the fact that if I want to do something on a Saturday morning, realise I am missing a part, and more often than not I can order it on Amazon and it will be delivered that afternoon. Or when something goes wrong, I can log on and quickly raise an issue, and within 5-10 minutes I have someone from support calling me. No nonsense with waiting for hours on hold. And then they will always ship out the replacement there and then without waiting for me to return the broken item, or if there is no replacement refund me the money. I never once had to argue with anyone about it, they just do it. And they also send a courier to pick up the broken item. No other service I've used comes remotely close to that. But yes, he should treat his employees a lot better, especially those in the warehouses. He sees them as expendable and probably within a few years, his warehouses will be more automated, and he knows that.

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You're not forced at all. You're welcome to go find a place that suits you better or buy your own island and make up your own rules if you like. You can ask Jeff to deliver food once a week if you like.

As someone else alluded to above, his fortune is built on systems that are built off the backs of current and previous generations. There will be lads out in the pissing rain tomorrow morning fixing potholes on roads that delivery vans are using to deliver those Amazon goods. He should contribute to those societal systems. It doesn't mean sell his shares and give cash to individuals but he could be properly taxed and that revenue put into, say, public healthcare or infrastructure projects.

It is also worth noting that the same societal systems guarantee his rights and business freedoms and allowed him to accumulate that wealth. He did come up with a great idea and he made it work, but nobody can try to say that 200bn is the appropriate level of remuneration for whatever work he did

he was so smart, he has helped to create a giant monopoly, who has been crushing competitors out of markets, and also treats his workers like sh!te!

when your options of income are amazon or the dole, you ll actually find, theres not many actual options there! those companies hardly 'lobby' governments to maintain these state protections, i.e. low rates of tax etc etc?

...and the fact, most of their employees, past and present, have also been largely publicly educated, using public money supplies

...and as other have said, these folks heavily rely on public/state entities to merely exist, self made, me hole!

..it ultimately comes down to your choice of parents, and your chosen date of birth, so chose wisely!

Google didn't become the leading search engine based on its name. It revolutionised how searching the web worked.

Their wealth is obscenely vulgar, but it’s theoretical really. It’s not hard currency.

What I personally find offensive and obscene is say the likes a David Beckam, a extremely wealthy individual, and still no hang ups about taking a vulgar sum of money to be an ambassador for the Qatar WC.

and these people trying to pass off as being normal everyday folks.

whatever happened to selflessness?

I haven’t heard of say Bezos or Musk at this type a crap.

money has no real effect at all when you get to the success/wealth levels of these centibillionaires

in the modern world, majority of wealth is stored in the value of assets, i.e. it doesnt necessarily need to be in hard cash to be real wealth, it actually makes sense to diversify, as currencies are also prone to devaluing

I remember when Google started. I remember the first iteration of it. The average joe hadn't a clue between that, Yahoo, or Ask Jeeves. Google was a funny name that people remembered, though, and it quickly became popular with "Google it" becoming a phrase.

I can't go into its optimisation or how it returned results, cos I don't know. But neither did the majority of the people who were using it.

In any case, this is getting off the track. Amazon, when it began, was just a number of book selling sites or are you going to tell me that they were revolutionary too? 😁

Wouldn't that be internet trading in general though? The impact from the web on brick and mortar shops wouldn't be limited to just Amazon.

Myself too. There's nothing like actually going to a shop and browsing for something and maybe picking up a surprise as well. Shopping online just isn't the same.

On the subject of Amazon, though, I will say this...their returns policy is fantastic. Now, I've only ever had to return one thing, a graphics card, but they refunded me no questions asked and the reason why I returned it was because I was simply unhappy with it, which is the vaguest of terms. You'd be hard pressed to get a refund from most (if any) real, walk in, shops with that kind of complaint.

I admire Bazos, Musk, Jobs, the Collisons, in fact I admire any person who built their wealth up from nothing, no matter what sector it is in, as long as it’s legal of course. Fair does to them, I’m sure it wasn’t easy, they obviously identified a need in the market and took advantage of it.

In relation to posters saying Amazon is a monopoly crushing the market unfairly, bullshit. I love Amazon, no matter what I want to buy I just look it up on Amazon and get the best price. It is a market place for businesses big and small that they would not otherwise have. No doubt many people have benefitted, and become rich themselves, because they are able to sell on Amazon. Musk has catapulted electrical cars into the market, no need to say anything about Apple, and the Collisons gave us Stripe, a safe and quick way to pay online.

Don’t begrudge others success, if you could make a lot of money, you probably would.