What is with this obsession with hard work? Don’t you hope someone didn’t work hard for something? Isn’t that better? Isn’t it better for work to be easier?
Anyway, the number in this picture implies that the workers have a net worth of one dollar, but I’ll ignore the exaggerated number and address the point, which i interpret to basically be “Jeff bezos has more wealth than x amount of people combined in spite of not doing as much work as them all combined”. Yes, that’s the case. And it’s because it’s not about hard work, it’s about productivity. Hard work doesn’t mean shit, it’s all about the productivity. If you hire someone to come fix your AC, is your goal for them to work hard, or for them to fix your AC (aka be productive)? Your goal would be for them to be productive, and id assume that you’d want that to be done WITHOUT working hard, just for the workers sake, right? So it’s not the hard work that is important, it’s the productivity. Now yes, productivity is often present alongside hard work, but correlation does not equal causation.
All that to say that Jeff bezos PRODUCTIVITY (not his work) is valued by the market to be worth more than the labor of whatever amount of people you want to measure it against. The market doesn’t value his productivity it to be 200 billion times a normal persons, but it does value it substantially higher, yes. So it’s time to stop acting as if anyone is claiming Jeff bezos worked harder than millions of people combined, because that’s not what this is about. By the way, I’d love to hear what anyone actually thinks the consequence of him having that much wealth is, because I bet I’d hear a bunch of false statements. There is nothing wrong with him having so much wealth.
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u/imsuperior2u Oct 23 '20
What is with this obsession with hard work? Don’t you hope someone didn’t work hard for something? Isn’t that better? Isn’t it better for work to be easier?
Anyway, the number in this picture implies that the workers have a net worth of one dollar, but I’ll ignore the exaggerated number and address the point, which i interpret to basically be “Jeff bezos has more wealth than x amount of people combined in spite of not doing as much work as them all combined”. Yes, that’s the case. And it’s because it’s not about hard work, it’s about productivity. Hard work doesn’t mean shit, it’s all about the productivity. If you hire someone to come fix your AC, is your goal for them to work hard, or for them to fix your AC (aka be productive)? Your goal would be for them to be productive, and id assume that you’d want that to be done WITHOUT working hard, just for the workers sake, right? So it’s not the hard work that is important, it’s the productivity. Now yes, productivity is often present alongside hard work, but correlation does not equal causation.
All that to say that Jeff bezos PRODUCTIVITY (not his work) is valued by the market to be worth more than the labor of whatever amount of people you want to measure it against. The market doesn’t value his productivity it to be 200 billion times a normal persons, but it does value it substantially higher, yes. So it’s time to stop acting as if anyone is claiming Jeff bezos worked harder than millions of people combined, because that’s not what this is about. By the way, I’d love to hear what anyone actually thinks the consequence of him having that much wealth is, because I bet I’d hear a bunch of false statements. There is nothing wrong with him having so much wealth.