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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by arrosenberg on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:08PM (#27911445)
> Is wealth being redistributed, or are the Bezos’ simply slurping up the new money that have been so abundant?

How do you differentiate these? If you have 100 dollars, distributed evenly among 10 people, and then you print 100 more and give them all to Jeffery, then you have redistributed the wealth even though you only printed new money. He went from 10% of the power to 55%.

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by edmundsauto on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:13PM (#27911511)
I differentiate distributed from re-distributed.

He may have a higher percentage of available wealth, but it’s not like other people have lost their money.

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by arrosenberg on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:25PM (#27911669)
That doesn't make sense though, each dollar doesn't exist in a value vacuum, so you can't ignore the impact of uneven distribution. If Jeffery wants to own the entire town, he can (and then he can get loans against his property to continue funding operations). At that point it seems pretty inane to argue that re-distribution hasn't happened - money is a proxy for economic power, and when you give one person a larger percentage, that's redistributive. Maybe the other people in the town can still buy groceries, but now they're competing with the baron for things like land, and baron Jeff will always win, if he wants to, with all that extra money.
Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by edmundsauto on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:33PM (#27913492)
I actually decided to delete my comment here. I've had a challenging day and I don't feel like making it worse by continuing this conversation. Have a nice day.
Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by aylmao on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:48PM (#27913611)
Inflation would say otherwise. Everyone had the same purchasing power before, and so could buy roughly the same things. Now, Jeffery has more purchasing power than anyone else, which means they can outbid and can keep the better things for himself.