[mehrzad]

I find your comment very off-putting. First of all, Bezos asked for advice on philanthropy. Second, most wealth generated by the property owning class (including Bezos) is through extracting the surplus value of their employees. Those billions were made through force (by the state monopoly of violence through police defending the so-called "right to property") as his employees never had a fair shot in getting a reasonable share of profits because he had the luck or inheritance to obtain the wealth producing tools (business infrastructure) first while his employees, many of whom are probably more intelligent and hard-working than he, did not. So while his employees work 9-5 making minimum wage to $50 an hour, he gets to enjoy billions and not have to work.

[tomschlick]

> as his employees never had a fair shot in getting a reasonable share of profits

They get paid an hourly wage or salary. Thats their share of the profits. Why are employees magically entitled to profits other than what they agreed to work for?

[mehrzad]

Because they never had a chance to own the means of production and thus were not able to negotiate on an equal footing.

[tambourine_man]

Oh yes, he did ask for advice, I forgot about that. Never mind.

Not being sarcastic, to me that makes all the difference.

The rest of your comment didn't make much sense to me, however.