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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:24PM (#24203896)
This is totally misleading.

A capitalist-ish economy is designed to create winners. If it wasn't Bezos, it would be someone else. What matters about Bezos' wealth (in this context) is not that this specific person controls it, but that we live in a society/economy where there will always be people who accrue this level of power and wealth. The problem isn't that Jeff Bezos is this rich, it's that we live in a society designed to concentrate money in this way.

ps. I was the 2nd employee at amazon, and worked closely with Bezos for 14 months.

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