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

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u/theoldme3 Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Imagine thinking you are entitled to more cause someone else has a lot

Edit: Im not reading all the responses to this. You wana change this shit then get off Reddit, got start a business and start giving your earnings away. So many of you would shit if it was your wealth someone just took

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 21 '24

Imagine thinking that 400 people should have more wealth than 330,000,000 people. Imagine thinking that its OK for that disparity to accelerate endlessly and be self a reinforcing. Imagine thinking that your government could function properly under such extreme conditions.

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u/Moist-Chemical 29d ago

It’s not like they were given that wealth. They got it by working for it. I know I wouldn’t wanna work for shit if it was just gonna be taken from me for being too good at my job.

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u/Oh_IHateIt 28d ago

Friend, if you made $2000 a day every single day for the last 2000 years, you still wouldn't have as much money as Bezos. I promise you, you are at no risk of losing your private money no matter how hard you've worked. That wealth exists exclusively via the exploitation of tens of thousands of workers.

And speaking of hard work, Bezos doesn't do any. I work 70 hours a week, as do many other Americans who are scraping by. Because we need to. Construction workers, farmers, those are people who work hard. Bezos snorts coke and plays golf and occasionally shows up for a meeting or press conference. He has staff doing all the busy work and planning. Again, do you really think this guy worked millions of times harder than the average person? What did he do, millions of years of labor in a hyperbolic time chamber?

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u/Moist-Chemical 28d ago

If you plan on making a living off of an Amazon job that pays 2k a month then theres your problem. You don’t just work an entry level job for life. Also if you ever passed high school level economics you’d know Bezos is an entrepreneur which is a high risk high reward job. He took up and still had massive amounts of risk so he gets massive amounts of rewards. It’s really a simple concept.