Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person
by croon on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:52AM
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Examples of something isn't proof of a system working. I'm more inclined to say that the low number of examples is proof that the system ISN'T working.
There should always be motivators (like money) for people to work harder, take risks, invent things, and fill a spectrum. I'm not sure if that spectrum needs to be in factors of millions though, instead of say, 100-1000s.
And I'm not saying anything about Bezos in particular. He really is self-made, but for everyone of him there are 100s of (patently less rich) inherited top 0.1%:ers.
But did he work millions of times harder than someone else? Did he risk that much?
I'll gladly work TWICE as much/hard for 5-10 times the reward. A lot of people do, for diminishing returns.
There should always be motivators (like money) for people to work harder, take risks, invent things, and fill a spectrum. I'm not sure if that spectrum needs to be in factors of millions though, instead of say, 100-1000s.
And I'm not saying anything about Bezos in particular. He really is self-made, but for everyone of him there are 100s of (patently less rich) inherited top 0.1%:ers.
But did he work millions of times harder than someone else? Did he risk that much?
I'll gladly work TWICE as much/hard for 5-10 times the reward. A lot of people do, for diminishing returns.