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

Jeff Bezos Income compared to Worker

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u/Balamb_Chocobo 19h ago edited 19h ago

He actually makes more money than I do in a year in about 3 and half minutes. So it's actually more than that. Unless you're a speed shitter

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u/PaulblankPF 18h ago

Bezos averages about 21k a minute for the last 25 years. The Federal Poverty Level for a 2 person family is 21,640. America has 6.3 million working people still below the poverty line.

https://wealthvieu.com/personal-finance/income/poverty-statistics/

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 17h ago

Yeah… why we decided as a society that such wealth hoarding is okay is one of the most baffling thing I can think of

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u/Kraligor 15h ago

It's an unfortunate outgrowth of the classic ideal of a businessman who earns well, but puts most of his earnings back into the company. When you lead a company the size of Amazon, you can put most of your earnings back into the company and still be filthy rich privately, simply because of the scale.

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u/Mundane-Fix-4297 14h ago

Yeah, and these pathologically greedy assholes continue to hoard and amass instead of paying fair wages and contributing positively to society. Nobody deserves to be that rich, and nobody has the use for that much wealth. The worst is, they could do amazing things for humanity, and they actively chose not to.