[bjourne]

If society "need" people to do non-fullfilling work it should compensate them well for it. Amazon need people to do menial work at starvation wages so that Jeff Bezos can grow his fortune, but that is not a societal need.

[ozim]

Well I would like to point your attention to one little fact.

Jeff Bezos is not buying crap on Amazon and he is not demanding lowest prices or free delivery.

Amazon needs people to do menial work at starvation wages so that bunch of other people with money to spend on crap from overseas could do it for cheap.

Seems that having cheap crap from Asia is a societal need.

Not defending anyone, just taking a different point of view into consideration.

[bjourne]

But that is not true. Skimming a few billions of Bezos' fortune would be enough to give all Amazon employee's a hefty raise for years to come.

[boring_twenties]

How do you figure?

According to [1], Amazon had just shy of 1.3 million employees at the end of 2020.

If by "a few billions," you meant something like $5 billion, that's only $3,846 per employee.

edit: Crap, forgot [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/number...

[rjbwork]

So, roughly a 2 dollar/hour raise? Sounds pretty significant to me.

[boring_twenties]

For one year.

[ozim]

Yes, add to it that when Bezos start selling shares - because he does not have it in cash burried underground or mansions like Escobar - it will turn out it is not billions people think about it will be a lot lot less.