Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and chef Jose Andres

Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by misiti3780 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:35PM (#27912510)

He's a parasite because the company (which hired 100K new workers during COVID) that he started and owns a shit-ton of equity in went up in the past year because of lockdowns?

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by andrepd on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:06PM (#27913296)

Yes. By reasons I expounded in another comment I believe a percentage of any enterprises's shares (in the order of at least 20%) should be owned by the public and pay out an equal dividend to every citizen.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by ChickeNES on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:18PM (#27913392)

Luckily, any member of the public is free to buy AMZN :)

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by AngryData on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:54PM (#27915167)

Of course that also requires excess capital to buy into. Most people can't afford significant amounts of capital investment though.

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