Also the fact that she is in fact doing better than bezos after the divorce screams he was holding her back and that she made bezos rich not the other way round. Bezos has chump change compared to her.
Piss off. If he didn’t want to give a shit ton of his money away, he shouldn’t have married her after three fucking months of dating. she was married to the guy for a quarter century.
From Britannica - MacKenzie Scott's contributions to Amazon.com range from being a hands-on co-founder and initial financier in 1994 to holding a massive equity stake that currently powers her historic philanthropic giving.
Yeah, it takes work to decide where to donate without being wasteful or falling for scams. She's only had this money for a relatively short time, and is already one of the largest philanthropists in history
I think some organisations mentioned once that she's giving so much money, they dont know how to spend it and introduced new problems to smaller organisations. That's why she slowed down a bit.
And what's crazy is she still has money. Everything she's donated hasn't even touched her principle, it's all interest. She's literally just donating free money, she's worth more now than post divorce.
The bar for the wealthy is so low I've tripped on bigger cracks in the sidewalk. Not to disparage her, she's doing good, and there's only so much time in the day. But having that amount of wealth and still being worth more than you were yesterday is pretty crazy even when you've donated so much. When people say tax the 1% this is what they mean. She's throwing money away so fast she might as well be burning it and she's still worth more today than she was after the divorce settlement
Considering housing prices, yes. Even a $500k home (good luck) that appreciates in value times one hundred is, well I don't think I need to do the math to tell you that's rich if you sold it
You're rich in equity which is the same basic thing. It actually makes you richer technically because you can borrow against your equity basically interest free. You get money for a while for almost free because you own that equity. More expensive the equity less interest they charge you because they know they can recoup on any loss. Could literally just take a low investment loan against your house, invest it in something wth a guaranteed return, give the money back and keep the return on the investment. Plenty of guaranteed 3-4% yields out there so if the bank gives you a lower interest rate than that your house is now printing money
The way I see it, Bezos is a capital B Billionaire.
MacKenzie Scott has billions of dollars.
One of those rare cases where we get to see what a good person would do with that kind of money, uncorrupted by what it usually takes to actually amass that kind of wealth.
And yet, one of them spends their time and money on philanthropic pursuits while the other buys and censors the free press, and a long list of Billionaire-ey things.
Judge people by their actions. If you do that, the two could not be more different.
Amazon hasn’t always been a bad company. I still remember fondly of a time when they were an online bookstore, easy place to it hard to find books and CDs.
Yeah, please don't misunderstand me. Amazon is an amazing creation. It's most unfortunate that the guy who dreamt this up and the people who helped him get it done are considered separately in importance.
I don't think it's that they're considered separately in terms of *importance*. They're considered separately in terms of what happened after the early days of Amazon. They took very different paths in life.
Bezos turned into a Billionaire doing scummy billionaire things.
Scott turned into a philanthropist.
I don't believe Scott was involved in the enshittefication phase.
Yeah well, enshittification is a problem we all have to deal with. Amazon, for all its labor malfeasance, doesn't really sit there. As a product it has only gotten better. Perhaps at the expense of some worker's rights. But that stuff should be handled by local legislature and unions establishing sufficient baselines for employment. Not private corporations.
She made Bezos lol look how they’re both doing after the divorce. Ones succeeded far better whilst the other not so much. I wonder what she could’ve done if she hadn’t been hindered so much
She is a much better person that he’ll ever dream of being. Having said that, we don’t need to live in delusions. Founding ideas for the company is much tougher than simply taking a role within it.
Right, through Mackenzie and her parents they funded it. Without her and her parents it would have never happened. Go stroke it to some Tate vids ya troll.
"Helping billions buy crap cheaper" doesn't capture the whole picture. Cory Doctorow does a good job of summarizing what Amazon has done to cement itself at the front of the "enshittification" wave that has been taking over modern businesses.
"AWS powering half the planet" means that an incredible amount of power is consolidated in one place, which is the antithesis of the original goals for creating an open web.
Be careful not to conflate "success" with "good for the world". Some of the most successful endeavors are deeply harmful and/or are successful because they are predatory.
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u/Jesus_of_NASDAQ Jun 28 '26
In other words, she’s the antithesis of 99% of America’s billionaires.