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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by backtoyoujim on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:55AM (#14865874)
I am struggling with the idea of using property rights to create financial inequity so that one man's moral stance can be furthered through charity.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by beisner on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:11AM (#14866014)
Although in this day and age it seems to be one of the very few ways one individual can make a difference. It saddens me, but probably easier for a man to take advantage of the system and become absurdly wealthy in order to do good for the world than it is for that man to change the system itself :/
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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by quadrangle on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:41PM (#14871251)
As stated in this amazing talk from a very different sort of corporate leader https://www.ted.com/talks/ricardo_semler_how_to_run_a_compan...

If you're giving back, maybe you took too much.

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