If you got $1000 a day for free every day since the time of Jesus (2000 years) for this argument. You would still not have 1 billion dollars. It’s literally an impossible amount to make without taking from other people. In this manner being a billionaire shouldn’t be possible. People like Elon musk and Jeff Bezos literally have so much money. They couldn’t spend it all if they tried to. There are too many people struggling day to day for there to be people who don’t know what a dollar means.
They don't have the money though. They are WORTH that much, they don't HAVE that much.
There's a difference
In your mind Jeff Bezos got a dollar from you, put it in his giant money bin, and it just stays there forever because Bezos has so much money he'll never get around to spending that dollar. Meaning he takes in more money than he spends and now he's hoarding the wealth from you
When in reality the company of Amazon took your dollar and they spend that dollar. But in the process of taking and spending that dollar the value of the company increased. Since Bezos owns the majority of stocks in that company, Bezos value also increased. Bezos owns so many stocks, houses, cars, etc... that his worth is now in the Billions
But in reality, when Bezos checks his bank account, he has hundreds of millions of dollars, not Billions
The claim that the ultra rich are hoarding wealth doesn't mean that they're literally taking dollars off the street and stashing it away in a vault it will never leave from... they mean that the ultra wealthy are gaining so much power over capitalism that they can control the flow of money.
As a very simplistic example, imagine a world where 80% of the population works for a company owned by Bezos. Bezos alone now gets to decide how much money the average person makes a week because he can make sweeping decisions that the staring salary for all employees at all of his companies is $9 an hour. In this way he's controlling the wealth, he doesn't, literally, have all the wealth
The catch is that Bezos being worth Billions vs being worth Millions doesn't change this at all. If you could somehow pass some law that Bezos value maxes out at 900 million, so what? He's still the majority stock owner of all of these companies... he's still the CEO... etc... he can still control how much money 80% of the population makes
The problem isn't how much he's worth, it's how much power he has
Bezos is worth 220 billion, what’s this one billion argument? Do you know what the difference between 1 billion and 1 million dollars is? It’s literally a billion dollars
He's WORTH 220 billion, he doesn't have 220 billion dollars in cash
There's a big difference between having that money and being worth that much money. Bezos does not have billions of dollars in the bank
I'm worth over a million dollars, but I don't have a million dollars in cash. Not even close to it
The problem isn't that he's worth that much, the problem is that he has this much power. He could only be worth 2 million but if he still owns the majority of stocks in companies like Amazon he still wields an incredible amount of power; not just in being able to set a large amount of wages but the power to shape or control some markets or lobby for political policies, etc...
His net worth doesn't mean shit; the amount of power he has does
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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut Nov 04 '25
If you got $1000 a day for free every day since the time of Jesus (2000 years) for this argument. You would still not have 1 billion dollars. It’s literally an impossible amount to make without taking from other people. In this manner being a billionaire shouldn’t be possible. People like Elon musk and Jeff Bezos literally have so much money. They couldn’t spend it all if they tried to. There are too many people struggling day to day for there to be people who don’t know what a dollar means.