Paul GrahamVerified account

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?

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.

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 …