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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 27

    Politicians call Bezos greedy for having $x billion. But he didn't do this by taking more Amazon shares. He did it by growing revenues and thus the share price. So if he'd opted not to build AWS, that would have been the more moral choice, because then he'd have been less greedy?

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      2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 27

        I agree Bezos would be greedy if he kept all this money and never donated any of it to charities. But that's not what the politicians are saying. They're saying it's greedy even to have made it. And if so, he definitely compounded his sins by starting AWS.

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      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg Mar 27

        Paul Graham Retweeted Bernie Sanders

        Since some people don't seem to believe that any actual politician would call Bezos greedy merely for the magnitude of his net worth, rather than for specific Amazon tactics, here is an actual politician doing it:https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1372641707829829632 …

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        Bernie SandersVerified account @BernieSanders
        We are in a moment in American history where two guys — Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country. That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral. It is unsustainable.
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      1. arti.san‏ @artisan60828775 Mar 27
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        agreed 💯

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      2. Nick Huber‏ @sweatystartup Mar 27
        Replying to @paulg

        Scarcity must be a pain to live with

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      3. VapidVC‏ @VapidVc Mar 27
        Replying to @sweatystartup @paulg

        The natural inequity of opportunity doesn't allow everyone to succeed, it has nothing to do with their will

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      1. fiki‏ @fik4o Mar 27
        Replying to @paulg

        Calling someone greedy for building something of massive value is idiotic at best.

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      2. Rohit‏ @krishnanrohit Mar 27
        Replying to @paulg

        I thought the claim was he has it *while* his employees are peeing in bottles? i.e., it's a relative distinction.

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      3. Justin Bassett-Green‏ @bassett_green Mar 27
        Replying to @krishnanrohit @paulg

        But only literally*while* they do so. So at any given moment, Bezos's morality depends on us figuring out if someone is refilling their Mountain Dew two liter

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      1. Derek J‏ @DJenniso777 Mar 27
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        Also, stimulus packages that print ourselves out of recession keep inflating asset/equity owners even more while middle class suffers

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      1. Jake‏ @jake2jake2 Mar 27
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        I think the issue is he uses all of the public services available but does not pay any taxes, he rack up billions and then denies employees the right to unionize to demand a better work environment. Its not illegal but its immoral. other than that there is nothing wrong.

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