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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by coliveira on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:24PM (#27914581)
> employees that did not take on any risk

You must be kidding that Bezos took any risk... The only risk he had was that he wouldn't continue making money from his well paid Wall Street job. He was already well off when he started raising other people's money to found Amazon. So, no, he didn't take any risk to justify all this money. Only the very deluded think he did anything of great risk. He is an oligarch who exploit others, and doesn't deserve even a fraction of that fortune.

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by pb7 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:00AM (#27918944)
Yes… that is the risk. He was already comfortable and could have had a guaranteed easy life but he decided to throw that away to start Amazon that could have failed after many years of foregoing his cushy salary. Most people wouldn’t have taken this risk in his position and that’s why they will never have a chance to be wealthy like him. Your foot stomping won’t change that.
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by coliveira on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:35PM (#27923962)
That's not risk at all. He wouldn't lose a cent, he was just trading one big salary for a potentially bigger fortune.
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