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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce R... by DINKDINK on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:09PM (#23715394)
People have paid Beyonce > 125,000x the musician down the street. Why should tell people who want to pay her money that they're wrong and we should steal from Beyonce to give to a musician no one wants to pay? Are you saying millions of people are wrong to prefer her music over a musician? That you're smarter than all those people how they should spend their money?

Life is Pareto, theft amplifies pareto-ness (see Russian oligarchs during and after USSR)

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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 @02:58PM (#23716699)
No, this is a winner-takes-all situation. Basically, Bezos has convinced a bunch of VCs to make a pile of money so big, that they could be the winner in this market. Your Beyonce analogy makes little sense here.
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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Wealth Soars to $171.6B to Top Pre-Divorce R... by edanm on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:06PM (#23717415)
What do VCs have to do with this? Amazon has been a public company for quite a while (since 1997, in fact).

Do you think Amazon "won" this market just by having more cash in the beginning?

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