[FactKnower69]

Yeah, it looks bad, but only if you pretend that the ideas these visionaries pioneered were worthless. To take a single example, it might seem obscene that Bezos' net worth would take 32 million years of continuous work for the average Amazon warehouse worker to accrue, but without him who would have come up with the idea of using a computer to buy things on the internet?

[JohnMakin]

You.. think bezos invented ecommerce? It long predates amazon. Amazon wasn't even the first online bookstore!

[FactKnower69]

How else would he make two hundred billion dollars? Paying employees coerced into selling their labor a wage which is less than the value their labor creates? Ridiculous

[psunavy03]

It's not just being able to come up with the idea, it's being able to build a team and execute without the company going under.

[rootusrootus]

I think Bezos has a halfway decent claim at being a visionary, at least compared to people like Musk, but let's be real -- ecommerce existed way before Amazon. He is a skilled businessman and built a wildly successful monopoly, but I don't see many concepts that he pioneered.

[ks2048]

Yeah, but "one click checkout"? Before Amazon, all the greatest minds could come up with was 2 and 3 click checkout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent