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rlritt's avatar

I have no problem with ultra rich if they develop something unique. Amazon was started as an online book delivery in his garage. Bezos' ex wife has systematically been divesting herself of the fortune she got in the divorce. I don't know what he does. But one of his biggest fans was my old boss who couldn't believe he could order a book on line and have it delivered. And he was a VP of a huge book publisher and lived in Boston. So no trouble getting books. I like Amazon a lot. It was a great idea. It doesn't matter that they made a fortune doing it. However inheriting a fortune and believing your smart and special while riding on your families wealth is disgusting.

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knowltok's avatar

Agreed completely on the inheriting thing. It is creating de facto aristocracy in a country that isn't supposed to have it.

As for Bezos, I'm of a similar mind, but I do wonder if we wouldn't still have Amazon (warts and all) if he'd only been able to wring $50B from that idea.

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rlritt's avatar

Yeah probably. I db't think knew he'd make this kind of money. For the first few years they only sold books.

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