Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by LesZedCB on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:51PM (#14868797)

I don't want their money. i want their companies.

Democratize their companies. control them by employment or by employee or government committee if they are too big. Make the big corporations work for the benefit of everyone, rather than shareholders and owners.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by elmar on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:15PM (#14869632)

Running Amazon by government committee, in a couple of years will be requesting a goverment bailout.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by prostoalex on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:45PM (#14870371)

This tends to realign the systems around serving the interests of that one large company, and historically has been a mixed bag. Finland's reliance on Nokia, Russia's on Gazprom and Saudi Arabia's on Aramco was good while it lasted.

For what it's worth US laready has large ownership stakes in such corporations as AIG, Amtrak, USPS, Freddie Mac, etc.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by justinv on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:00PM (#14868885)

I would argue - especially for Jeff & Bill - that the majority of employees are both the shareholders & owners of said companies.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person by gpawl on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:15PM (#14869027)

Most Amazon employees are non-shareholding warehouse workers (even if technically they go through a contractor)

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