Bezos has about the net worth of the #2 and #3 richest people combined. The median wealth in North America is less than $500k per adult. North America is where it's highest. Bezos has over 400,000 times the net worth of the average North American adult. Nothing about this is normal.
People have paid Beyonce > 125,000x the musician down the street. Why should tell people who want to pay her money that they're wrong and we should steal from Beyonce to give to a musician no one wants to pay? Are you saying millions of people are wrong to prefer her music over a musician? That you're smarter than all those people how they should spend their money?
Life is Pareto, theft amplifies pareto-ness (see Russian oligarchs during and after USSR)
No, this is a winner-takes-all situation. Basically, Bezos has convinced a bunch of VCs to make a pile of money so big, that they could be the winner in this market. Your Beyonce analogy makes little sense here.
His work, personally? Not his executive team, not his engineers, not the warehouse workers making $15/hour, the work of Jeff Bezos and only Jeff Bezos?
if it was only Jeff Bezos he would be worth more than a Trillion.
Jeff started it, and did efficiently, so that he didn't had to sell out to too much VC.
He manages one of the most efficient companies in the world. and plenty of employees have equity, I wish companies here did the same.
His work personally started everything else. Without him, there wouldn't be an Amazon, and none of those other jobs would exist, and trillions less value would exist in the world.
Though to be fair, a good counterargument to what I just said is that likely something else would've existed, so it's not true that trillions wouldn't exist, just the difference between Amazon and the next best thing. And there are still plenty of good reason to tax Jeff Bezos heavily enough to make sure there is less disparity, or organize society differently to not allow such a large difference in wealth. I mostly don't agree with those arguments, but obviously there are some good ones.
According to levels.fyi, an "Amazon Distinguished Engineer" (L10) is making $960,000/year. The GDP per capita in Central African Republic is $681/year. Should someone that is basically a typist, earn 10,000 as much as another human being?
Yes, if that person's work is 10,000 times more influential? Which it probably is?
Also “someone that is basically a typist“ is so... dismissive. If I were paid for my typing I’d be broke, my most productive days are often days I type the least. I am paid for my reasoning and deduction, not my ability to type.
You’re confusing the work for the medium.
Does Stephen King deserve more per word than a courtroom stenographer?
