Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by SwellJoe on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @07:29PM (#13991581)

I think it is important to the point, that one man is worth the annual GDP of countries that have millions of people. A country is not a person...it's millions of people, and it's nonsensical to say, "Oh, it's not such a big deal, because a nation of millions makes as much in a year as this guy's whole net worth."

That's a terrible argument for why the amount of money Bill Gates has is not absurd.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by ohyes on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @07:40PM (#13991645)

I'm not saying it isn't absurd I'm saying it isn't comparable to feudalism.

(It is indeed a terrible argument for the point I'm not making).

In feudalism a single person is the entire state. His wealth isn't comparable, disregarding the extra rights that are conferred from literally being the law of the land as a monarch.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by SwellJoe on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @08:10PM (#13991818)

Eh, I guess...but a feudal lord oversaw hundreds, maybe thousands of people. I'm not suggesting feudalism was better than what we have now, or necessarily agreeing with the argument made above about this being feudalism. Let's just all agree that Bill Gates isn't a feudal lord and this isn't feudalism, but rather something else that is probably bad, but it may take us a few generations to figure out exactly why it's so bad and how to avoid it.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by milesrout on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:04PM (#13992537)

>In feudalism a single person is the entire state. His wealth isn't comparable, disregarding the extra rights that are conferred from literally being the law of the land as a monarch.

No, that's not true. That's not at all true.

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