[adriang133]

It's crazy, right? It's always baffling how otherwise very intelligent people like Google/Meta engineers are communists. They're basically brain dead outside of their immediate area of expertise.

These people have no idea what wealth means, it would indeed be a problem if Bezos was consuming all his $100B+ but he isn't. The value he created through Amazon is likely orders of magnitude greater than his net worth.

If you agree that nobody deserves or needs that wealth, then please move to Cuba or North Korea. And enjoy your life, there's no Bezoses there.

[2023throwawayy]

Yea, we’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking it’s not great that so many people are literally starving and homeless and one dude has more wealth than Smaug.

[srackey]

The federal government spends 25 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth each year. They’re also the ones tasked with making sure people aren’t starving and homeless.

You’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking Bezos having money is connected at all to homeless and hungry people existing (in fact, I’d think you’ll find those things are negatively correlated — the USSR and Mao’s China had no billionaires, but boy did people go hungry!)

[dahart]

> The federal government spends 25 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth each year.

Hehe, this totally makes the opposite point from what you intended. The government spends that money on more than 330,000,000 people - some more than others. The realization that Bezos, one single person, is holding enough wealth to fund all government activity and absorb all taxes for 13,000,000 average Americans for a year is yet another way to get a sense for what a silly amount of money this is for one person to have.

> You’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking Bezos having money is connected at all to homeless and hungry people existing

Lack of affordable housing is the primary cause of homelessness, and in at least some cities where homelessness is extra bad (like San Francisco) tech companies including Amazon are the primary cause of housing inflation. I don’t see that it’s a stretch nor agree that anyone else coming to this conclusion is a crazy dumb idiot.

> in fact, I’d think you’ll find those things are negatively correlated — the USSR and Mao’s China had no billionaires, but boy did people go hungry!

Using other countries with other economic systems that had unique problems and no longer exist doesn’t have anything to say about why homelessness is increasing in the US today, this is pure straw man.