[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.