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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by archagon on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:00AM (#13993886)
Companies would still be able to accumulate money, and moonshots could still be pursued under corporate control. People would pursue billion dollar ideas in order to strengthen the companies they created rather than to enrich themselves.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by rohit89 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @11:13AM (#13996076)
They can already do it now and they aren't. If you have to convince the board, the shareholders etc to take on a risk that has a high chance of failure, it has even less chance of happening.

If a person has enough control at a company so as to be able to unilaterally spend its money, its not much different than having the money yourself.

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