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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person on Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:28AM (#13993146)
Sorry, I couldn't disagree more. While Jeff Bezos' upbringing isn't exact destitute, his rise from a modest background[1] to extreme riches is evidence to me that the American system still works to some degree. No offense but I think going all the way to conflating this with feudalism slightly discredits and damages efforts to fix real problems in our society such as increasing wealth gap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Early_life_and_educ...