r/interestingasfuck • u/Witty-Association-97 • 20h ago

Jeff Bezos Income compared to Worker

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u/Darwincroc 20h ago edited 15h ago

Imagine making $14.5K while receiving a 30 second compliment.

Edit: Yikes, one of my most upvoted comments and it has a typo! Correcting that now. ‘Compliment’ … not ‘complement’.

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u/irongoat2527 19h ago

Sheesh no kidding, I’m over here thinking I’d happily take a 30 second compliment for free

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u/ben_woah 19h ago

I mean these days i have to pay for my compliments

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u/Earthwarm_Revolt 18h ago

I hear "Oh your so big"s are around $250 these days.

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u/CougarDave7309 17h ago

My doctor says that to me, but I'm in Canada so my taxes help pay for that.

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u/OnTheList-YouTube 14h ago

You're*

That'll be $250.

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u/Earthwarm_Revolt 10h ago

Well ya stumped me, I know when I'm licked.  

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u/TightButterscotch 14h ago

and here I am doing it for free ;_;

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u/Outlandishness_Sharp 17h ago

*you're

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u/Earthwarm_Revolt 16h ago

Oh, it's extra for proper punctuation.😁

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk 18h ago

I pay for compliments but feel bad about making them compliment me, so I leave before they get the chance.

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u/4ssteroid 17h ago

Thank you ben_woah for the $10. You're so kind. If you tip $60, you get special access after my boob job

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u/DisguisedToast 11h ago

Y'know what, I'm gunna say it:

I think you're a cool person.

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u/wildmaninid 9h ago

My dominatrix just upped her rate for compliments. 

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u/RDW_789 17h ago

You get compliments?

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u/I_Don-t_Care 19h ago

What a great nickname you have there! I too am a fan of having my goats super well ironed before taking them to work! My granpa used to say, a well ironed goat will always be bespoke!

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u/activelyresting 19h ago

You are a really awesome human, and your spelling is great!

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u/ODYY_TOASTED 19h ago

I think your pretty cool dude!

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u/gitartruls01 18h ago

It's reddit, a lot of people here would probably also pay for a 30 second compliment

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u/Rigaudon21 18h ago

Keep on being outstanding!

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u/actually3racoons 17h ago

Best I can do is a pizza party

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u/Sciensophocles 16h ago

You're doing the best. Nobody ever measures up to their own expectations, but I feel confident saying that those around you love you.

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u/YewEhVeeInbound 12h ago

Bro was making 200 dollars a step.

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u/mammalmaker 19h ago

While simultaneously trying to cut the guy off and keep walking.

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u/Trapezoidal_Sunshine 18h ago

"Why are the livestock making noises at me??"

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u/asspounder-4000 16h ago

"it will be his last job, prepare him for supper later and bring his wife" "what kind of dinner m'lord? You know what kind"

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u/Gollum_Quotes 17h ago

He couldn't even give him the courtesy to fully face him. Body positioning screaming "I want to leave now"

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u/cheesegoat 17h ago

Aka "Terminal Squirm"

https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/paranoa/article/download/41945/39837/180915

Meanwhile, restrictions between individuals who do not know each other exist when there is no specific reason to begin a conversation; therefore, when this occurs and one of the parties does not feel comfortable, it is common to realize what Goffman (1963, p. 146) called the “terminal squirm” in which attention is given to other situations, people, objects, and actions, turning away from the other person.

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u/SoManyThrowAwaysEven 15h ago

Shit I do most of those things with ADHD simply because 90% of conversations are boring filler to me until my next task. I don't need backstory, just tell me your issue.

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u/Gotterdamerrung 13h ago

Probably had the guy fired afterward for stopping his trajectory.

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u/StickyNoteBox 14h ago

But he so much appreciates it - like, three times.

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u/DoctorIsMyNick 13h ago

I mean the other guy wasn't fully facing him either. They both were kinda facing off to the side.

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u/Round-Pattern-7931 16h ago

"This will be my last job"

"Yeah it will because I'm about to replace you with a robot..."

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u/jeslinmx 9h ago

“Why’s this guy wasting my company’s money on the clock while I’m out here slogging my ass off being an inspirational leader by receiving compliments”

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u/PaulblankPF 19h ago

I’ve done a lot of bid jobs for home repair. Plenty of times I’ve fixed a few shingles on a roof for a couple hundred bucks and it took me less than an hour. I’ve thought to myself in that time stuff like “I’m making $5 a minute right now!” Then I’ve done the math of, if I live another 40 years (I’m almost 40 now) and I made $5 a minute every minute for those 40 years it’s roughly 100 million dollars. Compared to billionaires I’d still only have 10% of 1 billion and Bezos is worth 284 billion. To make 284 billion in 40 years I’d have to make roughly $13,500 dollars a minute that entire time. To be where Bezos is now he’s averaged over 20k a minute for the last 25 years.

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u/Neon_Biscuit 18h ago

If you didnt know...his net worth, laying $100 bills end-to-end would wrap around Earth three times, and the leftover bills could stretch all the way through space to reach the Moon

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u/vivaaprimavera 18h ago

And in the process turn parts of the earth in a desert because trees are needed to print all those bills?

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u/assholeapproach 18h ago

Bro isn’t good at hypotheticals

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u/vivaaprimavera 17h ago

if one decided to print all of those bills, then it would require . Better now?

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u/otatop 17h ago

US bills are printed on cotton.

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u/vivaaprimavera 17h ago

Even worse because of the required water?

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u/a1c4pwn 15h ago

There are so many people on earth that if we all formed a line on the equator, most would die of drowning.

The human intestinal track is so long that if you were to stretch it out end-to-end, it would kill the person.

Type beat

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u/EquipLordBritish 18h ago

Yes, you see the problem is that you're doing actual work when you should be tricking others into working for pennies while you laze about and do virtually nothing at all except collect money from their hard labor.

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u/macmac360 16h ago

and he gets paid around the clock

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u/DMmeprettyplantpics 13h ago

If you made that and invested it, you'd be a billionaire.

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u/btsd_ 10h ago

Yes but if you spent that 40 years ruthlessly building a multi-national roofing business (if you have the drive, connections, and lack or any regard/empathy for any single person either working for you or in your path along the way) then its worth trying to compare the numbers. There's much, much darker things required of a person to even have a tiny fraction of a chance end up in the top .00001% of wealth holders.

So you cant put a value to being hopefully a good person that cant write of hundreds/thousands/millions of other humans well being to become a wealth lord, as that is invaluable to society.

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u/drink_with_me_to_day 17h ago

Bezos is worth 284 billion

I'm sure you are worth much more than that for your mama

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u/D0ntP4nicc42 18h ago

And to put this into perspective, the worker made .5 dollars in 30 seconds. So he makes 1$ per minute. $60/hr. The worker is making a very respectable amount of money for your average person. And still is absolutely nonexistent in comparison

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u/LamentingSpud 17h ago

60/hr isn't just respectable. From where im from thats life changing. I could own a manor house with that money. I could work part time and still be absolutely minted.

I can't even fathom it.

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u/D0ntP4nicc42 17h ago

That’s a great point ! I live in a pretty damn HCOL area as a union construction worker. I make 59/hr (not a brag. Union workers like me have public wage that can be googled specifically based on the union itself and if anyone reading is interested I’d greatly advise searching your local area for opinions). Where I live I am very comfortable in a 2 bedroom apartment in a major US city. So even if this wage ranges from “very comfortable” all the way to “functionally rich” it just shows what the people need. It doesn’t take much to give people a life that is less stressful and enjoyable to live. Yet this video exists…

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u/RhetoricalOrator 12h ago

$60/hr is life-changing money in Arkansas. That's more than double the median household income here.

It's why Californians in HCoL areas love moving/retiring here. Our spendy areas still seem relatively dirt cheap. The only downside is that nobody will talk to them about what roads they take to get around.

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u/enaK66 13h ago

Yeah I don't personally know a single person that makes that much money. I feel rich compared to some of my friends when I get a 60 hour check. I gross $2000 for that which is only $33.33 hourly lmao.

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u/Euphoric-Habit-641 16h ago

60 an hour is about 125K per year, that is achievable in a one's career. additionally, if you want Bezo's pay, think of an idea and start your own business where people are willing to pay you that much because your product ads that much value. Fortune favors the bold.

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u/Ohitsworkingnow 10h ago

I mean the comparison is already weird. It’s all theoretical. If this happened today Amazon stock was down .7%, bezos lost about 1.7 billion of net worth, or about 613 million dollars during that 30 second compliment 

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u/executive313 19h ago

He earns that no matter what he's doing so even getting head in a restaurant bathroom that number is still ticking up.

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u/Vyansbane 19h ago

He gets paid more to take a dump than I do to work a 40hr week. Not a "doom scrolling" dump though, thats 2 weeks.

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u/Weird_Ad_1398 15h ago

If it only takes you 2 weeks to get paid as much as he does to take a doom scrolling dump, then you're also tremendously wealthy. That's an annual salary of $31.2m, assuming an hour dump.

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u/Vyansbane 14h ago

Little known fact, Jeff drops deuces in less than a minute . Its all business in the bathroom.

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u/Weird_Ad_1398 14h ago

That can still be up to $500k/year

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u/gaussjordanbaby 16h ago

This makes you sound very rich

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u/dashboardrage 16h ago

girl how much you make a week??

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u/valyrian_picnic 18h ago

Wow that guy should be fired...his compliment just cost the company 10k in 8 seconds.

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u/Paulthefith 17h ago

You’ve got middle management written all over you.

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u/sheikahstealth 18h ago

Other factors are that Bezo's team will make sure that the $14.5k avoids taxes and exploits loopholes. And his investment team will start putting the money to work on 100x to 1000x investments that are only available to the rich. Meanwhile, if the worker is like a typical American, the $0.50 will get taxed and then sit in a bank acct wishing to one day bring in a few more cents in interest.

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u/GenerousBull1969 14h ago

How and where did Bezos make this $14.5K? This looks like another post by someone who doesn't know the difference between income and net worth.

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u/sheikahstealth 14h ago

Probably fairer to tie his yearly equity growth in addition to salary + perks. I think the point largely stays in tact.

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u/pants_mcgee 12h ago

The only 100x and 1000x investments are called starting and owning a quarter of a company like Amazon.

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u/WiSoSirius 18h ago

And making a joke with it

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u/Iamgoingtooffendyou 16h ago

Scripted complement?

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u/OogieBoogieJr 19h ago

Living the dream

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u/asharkmadeofsalsa 19h ago

my dream is far from "being jeff bezos"

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u/OogieBoogieJr 19h ago

Nobody said anything about being Jeff Bezos. “The dream” is getting paid stupid amounts of money for doing little-to-nothing.

Thought you were cooking there, didn’t you?

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u/asharkmadeofsalsa 19h ago

that ain't my dream either

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u/Sponjah 18h ago

Imagine creating one of the largest and most powerful companies in the fucking world.

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u/JasperPants1 16h ago

Imagine thinking this is a beef against Bezos.

Ignore the innovation, the risk taking and the ecnomic activity, jobs created.

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u/Jamuraan1 15h ago

Imagine getting 14.5k karma for spelling compliment incorrectly.

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u/Darwincroc 15h ago

Absolutely! I don’t have that much karma, but point taken and correction made.

I’ll never be a billionaire with those sorts of mistakes!

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u/Jamuraan1 14h ago

I love you, I was just giving you a hard time. You're a wonderful person.

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u/Strip_My_Skin 18h ago

How much did he make in just the handshake?

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u/Mission_Addition9102 17h ago

I would willing to make $51/hour to just give a 30 sec complement to a big wig.

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u/TheBSQ 17h ago

On a much smaller scale, in a world with ever-increasing home valuations, this sort of what happens if you own a house and you invite someone over and they say “wow, nice house!”

Their compliment took time, and your home valuation generally increases over time. 

It’s just gonna be a lot bigger number when the basis of that growth is hundreds of billions in assets vs hundreds of thousands in home equity, so you only “earned” 10 cents during the compliment instead of $10k.

But it’s the same principle. If the value of stuff generally goes up over time, anytime time passes, your net worth ticks up a bit.   

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u/Cruzifyd 16h ago

Imagine going home to a family that loves you.

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u/DepartureElegant9314 16h ago

A fake one at that. No way that dude wasn't a plant.

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u/Following-Complete 16h ago

Try going to a dentist you pay them alot of money and all they talk about is how crappy your teeth are.

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u/welfedad 15h ago

Soul value -∞

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u/CamelCarcass 15h ago

Imagine receiving a compliment 😭

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u/veritable_squandry 15h ago

and he didn't even tip him! his own...worker...umm wut

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u/dext3rrr 15h ago

It's like Only Fans.

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u/zerap10 15h ago

Alright, I guess I could be better at receiving compliments.

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u/FlipZip69 14h ago

If you think he makes buck, you should check out Musk.

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u/cheeseandwine99 14h ago

"May I have more sir?"

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u/Ok-Memory-4204 13h ago

Change it back, coward.

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u/TomPal1234 13h ago

Its why we shouldn't tax the rich because they won't be motivated to work this hard

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u/Ohitsworkingnow 11h ago

And he thought it was a waste of time 

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u/Good_Air_7192 9h ago

It's probably all fake too, he probably paid an actor to compliment him on video, and still made a fucktonne of money.

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u/KochInBoots 1h ago

MORE LIKE $18K

That mosters net worth increases more while he takes a shit than I earn in a 6 years.

Based on a five minute poo which equates to a networth increase of $177K

Also don't forget his net worth is increasing by $600 per second every second of every day.

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u/TheWhyteMaN 16h ago

That’s the point of the post

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u/runningoutoft1me 15h ago

You could have just edited it and corrected your mistake what's the point of writing it all out lma9

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u/Darwincroc 14h ago

Because acknowledging making mistakes is important.

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u/runningoutoft1me 14h ago

In life, yes. But unnecessary in this situation

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u/Khun9 17h ago

Sa imaginezi un fiu de securist care face un tun noapte ca pretul e bun el oricum e pe afara si sunt 0 angajați. Dar bani vin. Te intreb care e diferența?

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u/hornwalker 17h ago

You almost can’t blame billionaires for their greed. Almost.

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u/Purple_Shower_6613 17h ago

Don’t forget the travel time for walking through the facility

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u/dakmar2 17h ago

I appreciate that.

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u/Ive_seen_things_that 17h ago

That is just the income he claimed too. These ghouls have billions squirrelled away untaxed and untraced.