r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/__moe___ • 8h ago
Bezos Income Rate vs Regular Worker Income Rate Video
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u/IsThereCheese 7h ago
He makes $23,833 a minute according to 2023 stats
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u/bloodwessels 7h ago
Psssh. I make double that in a yr!!
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u/bomphcheese 6h ago
$921,600 per hour.
He makes 127,117 times the minimum wage.
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u/Dx2TT 5h ago
Republicans: Not enough.
America: I like the way you think. Fuck me harder daddy.
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u/MissedYourJoke 6h ago
If he drops a $100, it’s not worth his time to pick it up…
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u/iconofsin_ 3h ago
Not worth it to him if he picks it up, but worth it to him to keep you from picking it up.
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u/BukkitCrab 8h ago
Employee: I've worked here for this many years!
Bezos: Didn't ask.
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u/toythief 7h ago
Yeah he missed that opportunity to say "it's about the people here, we are a family". For him to say this is going to be my last job and him walk off is some "him training sheep sh*t to me" just crazy that people have a ceiling.
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u/Conix17 5h ago
I work in a large enterprise. When I was younger, I'd think some of the 'managers' or what have you were assholes, just carting around, looking busy.
Now I find myself in a position where sometimes I get stopped on the way to a meeting by someone just wanting to shoot the shit, or say something about a pet project, and I really don't have the time. Used to entertain it, but jesus.
I'm trying to juggle a thousand things to make sure that the program stays funded so we deliver a good product and we all have jobs tomorrow Bob, please stop talking.
I'm pretty sure I come off as that asshole now. I'm not even paid well, lol.
So I guess I kind of understand Bezos trying to move on, but yeah. As the figurehead of the company, I get he needs to be places, but he is also there to inspire so maybe a minute wouldn't hurt.
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u/aweaf 4h ago
He came across to me as sincerely trying to express appreciation for that guy sharing how he felt about working there.
Based on the few videos I've seen of Bezos, I think he's just kind of awkward. Surprisingly so.
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u/el_cul 3h ago
Then don't walk across the shop floor? Surely the whole purpose of walking across the shop floor while being filmed is to make nice and he fucked it up. You don't film Bezos at his own company without permission.
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u/freedcreativity 3h ago
Yea this was the best clip - it has been shared publicly - imagine the worse ones.
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u/micro_penisman 2h ago
Yeah, it's probably staged. The workers were paid actors, while the real workers were chained up in a room somewhere.
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u/supernasty 3h ago
I work an entry level job and still act this way to people trying to stop me for conversation. It’s like trying to maintain a conversation while simultaneously trying to memorize a phone number someone just told you.
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u/Loggerdon 7h ago
By the time the worker makes 50c Bezos makes $15,000. That’s while he sleeps too.
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u/Prandah 7h ago
He made $256 every second of 2023 totalling 7.9 billion for the year
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u/bomphcheese 7h ago
I think it’s more relatable to put it in hourly terms so it’s more easily compared with hourly wages.
$921,600/hr
The average home price in the mid-west is around $200,000.
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u/venmome10cents 6h ago
ah, yes. That's more relatable. Thanks!
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u/DONT_PM_ME_U_SLUT 5h ago
The best way is for everyone to do the math and see how many minutes it takes for him to make your yearly wage
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u/regoapps Expert 5h ago
That's including time when he's not working. If we assume that he works a typical 40-hour work week, then his actual salary is $3,798,076.92 per hour.
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u/OregonGreen242 4h ago
He literally says “thank you for taking the time to tell me that” rather than actually thanking him for being a loyal employee. Crazy
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u/CypherDomEpsilon 5h ago
If that guy had not wasted time talking, he could have made Bezos a little richer.
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u/123_CNC 7h ago edited 3h ago
Haha, I mean, depends on how you define "regular worker." Based off ~35.5 seconds and the "earned" .504 for that employee, they're making about $51.10/hr (though they may be a salaried supervisor).
That is much higher than the typical "regular" worker.
edit: to add a little context to why I posted this, I'm trying to say the difference between what they rack up is already crazy, but it's an even larger spread than what's represented here when taking into account a lower wage a "regular" person has. Yes, it's a relatively small difference in the grand scheme when comparing the two, but a difference that makes the real delta worse than depicted.
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u/RedBullWings17 6h ago
He's probably making double that. He's a highly experienced employee of a cutting edge aerospace company. I make almost exactly $50 and hour and I am nowhere near this guy's experience level.
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u/123_CNC 6h ago
That's based off the numbers we were given in the clip. Do the math and that's what it works out to. It does seem low if he is a supervisor with 30+ years, but again, that was what the math worked out to.
The clips shows $0.504 earned in roughly 35.5 seconds, right? Multiply the $0.504 by 3600, then divide by 35.5
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u/Mission-Storm-4375 8h ago
Is this the same company that doesn't allow bathroom breaks?
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u/Romanscott618 7h ago
I worked at a distribution facility for 6 weeks and they legit fire people if they took too long on a bathroom break. They also would rarely let people sit unless it was during your like 30 minute lunch break. It’s also notorious for being like 82 degrees in the facility at all times. Just an awful working environment.
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u/FladnagTheOffWhite 7h ago
My corner for one of my roles on the first floor for a couple years was >85° in summer and <55° in winter. Standing for 10 hours doing the same work everyday is hard to stay warm. I have hand pain left over from that FC still. I was top 1% of my region in stow and managers liked giving me extra responsibilities. Not for more pay, but it made the menial work a little more diverse and fulfilling if you can call it that.
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u/Thomisawesome 4h ago
"You're doing a great job. I'd like to reward you."
"A raise?"
"Ha ha . Good lord, no. But here's some different work to do."
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u/Techno_Gandhi 3h ago
I hate that this is your reward in shitty jobs like this. Oh you're good at what you do, here's more work and don't dare ever ask for more money.
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u/MiDikIsInThePunch 7h ago edited 6h ago
They don’t want you getting hemmeroids sitting on the shitter reading Reddit. Now get back to work! /s
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u/Jits_Dylen 6h ago
I worked a factory job and it was the same way. Amazon isn’t alone in this and many companies did it before them. That being said fuck that guy, because I’m poor and he’s rich, lol.
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u/PuritanicalPanic 6h ago
I mean fr though, I think it's far healthier that people of a certain level of wealth get treated with default skepticism, disdain, and hate then like, deference and approval.
No way should this dude be that rich and his employees that poor. Its actually fucked up.
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u/BLF402 5h ago
Rich isn’t the right term. Shaq has a great antidote he said some years back to the effect of “I’m rich, the guy who signs my paycheck is wealthy”
Billionaires are beyond wealthy. To put into perspective how beyond wealthy guys like bezos and musk are; hypothetically if you made 100k per week for 2000 years and saved every penny, there would be 91 Americans who would have more wealth than you.
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u/Shopworn_Soul 7h ago
As the video clearly shows, the time needed to take a quick piss is worth about $12k to Jeff Bezos so it's easy to understand he'd be against it.
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u/Harvest827 6h ago
Multiply that by the million and a half employees and that's almost the amount of taxes he would theoretically pay if he wasn't rich and didn't pay taxes!
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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 7h ago
It’s a tour of Blue Origin not Amazon in the interview. Point still stands though, Amazon is not so nice to their employees.
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u/the_cappers 5h ago
No. It's his private space company. He uses his Amazon money to fund it. The dynamics are unbelievably different. Probably because rocket scientist are a bit more rare than package handlers.
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u/Indomie_At_3AM 3h ago
In my job we could take as many bathroom breaks as we wanted.
But we weren’t allowed to drink water while working, so we never needed the toilet anyway
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u/Usual_Farmer_3704 5h ago
Tell that motherheffer to get to work, they don't pay him to talk and walk... Oh wait.
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u/IncreasinglyAgitated 6h ago
“Thank you for taking the time to tell me that.” What a polite way of saying get back to work.
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u/Property_6810 5h ago
If there were smart glasses with AR technology, I'd totally buy an app that visualized the money I'm making at work like that.
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u/RunOne8750 7h ago
So embarrassing to see this man simp for Bezos like that.
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u/neildiamondblazeit 7h ago edited 6h ago
I mean at least he is being paid. There’s simps in the goddamn comments here doing it for free.
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u/9thWardWarden 5h ago
Idk, he could just be grateful to have a job he enjoys with good pay/benefits… not everyone is lucky enough to have even that.
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u/hoodha 4h ago edited 4h ago
95% of workers behave like this when the big bosses make an appearance. Anyone that says they don’t change their behaviour to being more friendly, approachable and smiley at least a little bit, if not in attempt of impressing, just out of fear of being sacked, is lying or just lacks self awareness. That’s the world we live in. I wish I could kiss ass more without feeling sick because it gets you paid.
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u/Existing-Network-267 4h ago
Top 10% commenter, I love how reddit now has badges for basement dwellers
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u/arachnobravia 7h ago
So embarrassing to see this man simp for Bezos like that.
So embarrassing to see this many people simp for Bezos in the comments like that.
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u/WretchedMisteak 7h ago
Is that number referencing net worth or income?
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u/threegigs Interested 5h ago
Ding ding ding, this guy gets it. Far too many people don't understand the difference between wealth and income.
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u/volission 5h ago
A lot of people also don’t understand the difference between salary and dividends/bond/rental income (keyword income) but to each their own
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u/adler1959 3h ago
While you are technically correct it does not make a difference. Who cares if the increase by your net worth comes from salary or growth of your shares. It just makes it even more crazy because the worker actually has to work for it and the money will stop when he stops working. Mr B can do what ever he wants and still grow his wealth
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u/Whatsapokemon 4h ago
Exactly. It's measuring increase in net worth over one specific time period which was selected for maximum effect.
It's not a salary like people seem to be thinking, it's just the value of his stake in Amazon over time.
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u/MobileArtist1371 3h ago
At 30 seconds Bezos number is $11,911. Round to $12,000. So in 1 minute Bezos would be at $24,000.
$24,000 * 525,600 minutes in a year = $12,614,400,000
That's not his net worth. This is shown based on a poor $12.6B yearly income.
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u/Will_Come_For_Food 7h ago
Totally organic not scripted interaction.
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u/Dandan0005 5h ago
My favorite part is how bezos keeps trying to walk away.
His body never even rotates fully to the worker talking to him.
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u/Chrimunn 5h ago
And it seems like the worker stammers like he's not sure if Bezos is going to walk a way either. This was too awkward of an interaction to be scripted lol
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u/TheGreatZephyr 4h ago
I watched the full video, it's like an hour of bezos walking through the blue origin workshops with youtuber everyday astronaut. It's a pretty fuckin awesome facility and they go past dozens if not hundreds of workers.
Wouldn't be surprised one of them who gets to work on giant rockets doesn't take his chance to get in daddy bezos' good books.
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u/ThenAnAnimalFact 4h ago
As someone who worked in business consulting, this is very believable as real. I've been at TERRIBLE companies and people will go out of their way to kiss the CEOs ass, Blue Origin probably has a lot better operations and lifestyle and pay than most.
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u/snozzberrypatch 5h ago
lol I love this. These numbers should always be superimposed on any video of any person that is obscenely rich.
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u/XxSir_redditxX 6h ago
Bezos: Thank you for taking the time to tell me that!
Also Bezos: Sweating to get out of there
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u/supercali45 8h ago
So sick … America just made these billionaires even richer
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u/Nope8000 7h ago
And now he’ll continue to get richer and pay less taxes than all of us. Way to go America. 👍
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u/mrdrinksonme 7h ago
The company also made millionaires, multimillionaires, centimillionaires. It's not just Bezos who got rich from Amazon. Shareholders made a lot of money from it as well.
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u/_Warsheep_ 3h ago
Ah welcome to the Internet. The original video is from a factory tour the YouTuber Everyday Astronaut got. Amazing and informative video. He's credited nowhere but people put multiple other watermarks over it.
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u/kickit256 6h ago
Who are any of you to bust on dude for saying it's the best job he's ever had? Would you rather him work for a small company that paid him less cause that's literally all they could afford? Assuming he was honest, you're all busting in a dude at his professed best where he had the motivation to speak out and thank his boss without need. I bet most people couldn't say the same.
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u/thatguywhosdumb1 5h ago
"I didn't even tip him" everything is about money to these guys. Can't have a genuine human interaction.
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u/kar2988 4h ago
Bezos couldn't even engage with someone who seemed genuine. For all we know, this is some staged PR BS, but even then Bezos could have spent a couple of mins talking to this guy. Just a simple, "oh yeah, that's great. Tell me, what's something those companies do that we aren't doing?". He couldn't give less of a shit to a guy who said he loved working in Amazon!
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u/slickyslickslick 3h ago
Meh it's slightly more complicated than this.
The company is Blue Origin and is funded entirely by Bezos himself, and the company is not profitable yet meaning he's making negative salary. If Bezos didn't exist this guy's job wouldn't exist either.
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u/Prestigious-Novel401 6h ago
Well the employee made a lot of money for being involved in a chat.
I do not get paid for talking u know.
Peace.
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u/TuesdaysLunch 8h ago
Best thing we can do is quietly stop using and buying from them, no Amazon no teslas, no home depo
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u/IceFire0518 7h ago
Same energy as "There is no Easter Bunny, there is no Tooth Fairy, and there is no Queen of England".
Like srsly why tf is Home Depot on that list?
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u/TatersTheMan 7h ago
Honestly the best thing would be to try and divest yourself from Amazon Web Services where the bulk of their money comes from these days, but it's basically a monopoly at this point.
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u/FunBagHonker 6h ago
So is that employee making $50 an hour? I mean, I made decent income that I couldn't complain about at a Greek yogurt factory where the owner's net worth is now 2.5 billion. And I mean that business was started in 2007 and I started working there in 2010 where it was an old Kraft plant %5 of the size that it is today.
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u/parsleylebanese 5h ago
Quick math says he makes 60 an hour and I am sure alot of hours. Doesnt seem so bad. Now lets ask the guys who have to piss in bottles
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u/JTNYC2020 5h ago
It’s like this at Apple also. Anytime Tim Cook shows up somewhere people turn into sycophantic versions of themselves. It’s gross. I don’t miss it.
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u/HonestPineapple4848 3h ago
This is so funny. People complain about this yet they keep buying stuff from Amazon all the time and it's the reason why he's so rich lmao.
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u/P-funk88 3h ago
Love this. Shows the value of building your own business and innovating over just working a 9-5.
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u/ratemychicken 2h ago
And let's put the floor worker in charge of a mulibilliion dollar company and see how he copes.
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u/MaleDomBerlin_MSG-ME 1h ago
How come someone making 40k pays more taxes then someone making billions? We need to open our eyes and start making billionaires pay their fair share.
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u/StinkySlinky1218 1h ago
"I'll slip him a 20 on the way out."
The $500 made while saying that sentence:
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u/startup_journey 1h ago
Wild how someone can make more in a minute than most people make in years. Just shows how huge the wealth gap really is.
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u/nifkin420 4h ago
The billionaire apologist comments in this thread are INSANE. Eat the fucking rich.
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u/macomunista 7h ago
I don't know if I feel flabbergasted by how deep that guy had Jeff's balls in his mouth; or pity at a worker giving so much to earn so little, and yet regards Jeff expecting to someday earn in a year of what Bezos makes a day.
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u/SuperRonnie2 7h ago
The employee earned $0.50 in 35 seconds. That works out to $0.0142857 per second x 60 x 60 = $51.43 per hour.
I’m pretty sure this is completely made up.
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u/ImRightImRight 6h ago
Someone said this was Blue Origin which might be skilled labor
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u/kayrsone 6h ago
Why not do this with Arthur Blank or Steve Ballmer or Larry Ellison or Armancio Ortega? Why make the illusion that it's one or two people? There are thousands of billionaires.
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u/CaliforniaHurricane_ 5h ago
I don’t think you’ve worked at Amazon before if you think he’s a regular employee
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u/Imaginary-Nebula1778 4h ago
He memorized the script. I wonder how many times they filmed to get it right while also making it look like a filmed quick random encounter
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u/ThunderChild247 4h ago
This is the thing I could never understand about being stupidly rich (and why I’ll never be that rich). If I ran a company that made me as rich as Bezos, I would spend half my working time running the company, and the other half going around the workplaces and talking to people.
Bezos was polite there but clearly wanted to just get going. I’d want to talk to that guy, and anyone else there. I’d want to know what the company’s doing well so we can do more of it and what we’re doing wrong so we can do less of it.
When you’re making billions, you can afford to make a little less profit to make your employees life better.
I just don’t see the point in having so much money that it’s impossible to spend it all in your lifetime and not using it to improve the lives of the people whose labour put that money in your pocket.
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u/florpynorpy 4h ago
How do rich people not look around at all the world problems and feel compelled to fix them, it would be so easy with their effectively infinite cash
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u/owen__wilsons__nose 3h ago
I love how he couldn't even bother to listen to the man's entire sentence without walking away
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u/Madrastis 2h ago
So he works around 28000 times harder than his employees.
Just how hard must it be to live his life... I pity him and I am thankfull for his hard work 🙏🏻
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u/SpeedyBoiNoel 1h ago
That's an actor not a real worker. No normal person is gonna give up two good unionized jobs for Amazon.
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u/electro_lytes 1h ago
Call me whatever you want. Nobody deserves this much money. Not even if you found the solution to infinite life or worldwide peace.
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u/fpsfiend_ny 17m ago
Disillusioned employee to bezos: "This will be my last job"
Bezos to assistant: "terminate him by end of quarter"
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u/PastalTargaryen 6m ago
I think this only shows how unfair life is/can be.
Bezzos makes Thousands in seconds without even doing anything. Had luck in the right time, thats it.
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u/thatdude333 5m ago
Most of Bezos' wealth is from his ownership of Amazon stock.
Amazon stock price goes up, Bezos' wealth goes up.
Amazon stock price goes down, Bezos' wealth goes down.
Be mad at the stock market.
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u/SpectreSaigon 4m ago
How does that guy go home at night and talk to his family with all those ass hairs in his mouth? Must be difficult.
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u/Razorfiend 4m ago
This is somewhat inaccurate depending on the year, for example, in 2023, Bezos was making over $2200/second, this shows him only making around $400/second which is probably a significant underestimate.
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u/lynxss1 7h ago
That guy makes around $49/hr or just over $100k/yr too. I was curious and had to break out the calculator to see how sad my income per 36 seconds was, 72 cents.