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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce R... by barrenko on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:18AM (#23714199)
What's the argument here. Salary is a salary precisely because of this reason. You get a small something, or you in a non salary scenario get either zero or something way bigger than a salary.
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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce R... by amelius on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:26AM (#23714322)
The deal is: you either get a salary or you carry a risk.

The problem: there is no risk.

Even if you go completely bankrupt, you still can get a simple job like everybody else.

The only way this would be fair if the risk was losing $171.6B in case of failure.

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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce R... by brandon272 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:34AM (#23714422)
This "they took a risk!" stuff is just success worship crap grilled into people in our culture to justify someone amassing more wealth than most of us can even mentally comprehend.

Bezos came from a privileged background. What was the big risk involved that makes his current level of success so sacrosanct? It's not like he'd be thrown in jail (or worse) if the company had failed. He would have moved on and started a different company or gotten another 6+ figure job.

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