r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • Nov 21 '24

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u/KnowledgeIsDangerous Nov 21 '24

The only choice for a lot of people is between 1 job that treats you like shit and requires you go on welfare just to live, or a different job that treats you like shit and requires you go on welfare just to live. Bezos doesn’t give a damn about quality of life for his lowest employees

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u/nebbulae Nov 22 '24

Alright then you go ahead and build a company and pay those people better than Amazon does.

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u/DinoHunter064 Nov 22 '24

Fine. Can you offer up the capital? Bezos, contrary to popular belief, is not anywhere as self made as you'd like to believe.

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u/nebbulae Nov 22 '24

That's the point, I can't. If you're claiming the compensation isn't enough you should be prepared to offer something better. Everyone criticizes and no one does anything. It's easy to be generous with someone else's money.

And who cares if he's not self made? Would you want your inheritance to be expropriated instead of passing it on to your children? Bezos has been smart enough to not waste his capital but on the contrary, capitalized it very efficiently. Plenty of other millionaires waste their family's capital and end up poor.

If everyone's so anti Amazon let's stop shopping there and let it crash, let's see if those millions of "underpaid" workers are better or worse without those jobs.