Apparently Jeff Bezos makes $28,000 (the median yearly salary of an Amazon employee) every 9 seconds.
He's on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
The inequality is mind boggling. How do you actually, concretely, undo this kind of madness?
@neil @bob OK, first, you start by providing a citation for the numbers you're spreading around.
For example, I cannot find your $28k figure, but I did find a "reliable" source saying he makes only ~$81k _per YEAR_: http://time.com/money/4738275/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/
Second, you learn how markets and securities laws work.
Third, well, by that point you will no longer be so upset.
@taoeffect @bob Well, the source article is also time.com: http://time.com/money/5262923/amazon-employee-median-salary-jeff-bezos/
@taoeffect Yeah, fair point. It would only be accurate to say that his net worth increased by this amount in this date range. Which equates to this amount per second. With no guarantee that it will continue to rise at this rate, and may in fact decrease.
That aside, however you frame it, Jeff Bezos' net worth is currently, and likely will be consistently, many, many, orders of magnitude greater than most people's on the planet, no?
@neil Yes, certainly, but some people have penises that are many orders of magnitude longer than others. I can see how some would think that's a crime (and maybe it is), but, when compared to crimes like 9/11 by our own government, it is a very insignificant crime.
