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    1. 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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      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. Friedmanid‏ @Friedmanid1 Mar 27
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          You're right Paul but what about this article. (I really love you to answer, thanks).https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-tech-startup-echo-bezos-alexa-investment-fund-11595520249#comments_sector …

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        1. Jill Sharpe‏ @JillAnnSharpe Mar 27
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          They do it all the time. Merely having wealth is considered immoral to some.

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        2. Joshua Oster-Morris‏ @craftyc0der Mar 27
          Replying to @paulg

          The alternative is that wealth didn't exist at all. It's a shame people who don't read history are keen to assert power over others.

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        2. Amogh‏ @amogh_pant Mar 27
          Replying to @paulg

          "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." — Dr @ThomasSowell, Vision of the Anointed

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        2. Anshu Skyflow  🌶‏ @anshublog Mar 27
          Replying to @paulg

          Conflating crony-capitalists with inventor-capitalists is the original sin of the democratic left.

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        3. Joshua Voydik‏ @joshuavoydik Mar 27
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          This is good

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        2. depo‏ @deporojue Mar 27
          Replying to @paulg

          To be fair, there is a difference between calling individuals greedy and attributing the state of wealth inequity in our society to greed. I don’t think it is clearly unambiguous to what Senator Sanders is referring.

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        3. mingle  🙃‏ @minglecm Mar 27
          Replying to @deporojue @paulg

          Yeah, if a whole street is starving and there's one house with 1,000 years worth of food, that person may have gotten that food in legitimate ways, but they're still greedy for sitting on it while people starve around them. That's how I took Sanders' message.

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