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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
    #26485460 - 02/14/20 01:18 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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Trex... this is going to blow your noodle.

I just read that Bezos worked at McDonald's in his youth.

THAT NIGGA WORKED AT MCDONALD'S.

If Bezos once worked at McDonald's... anyone can do it.

He's just another one of us.





"The family moved to Houston, Texas, where Mike worked as an engineer for Exxon after he received a degree from the University of New Mexico."

NOT POOR!

I remember eating oatmeal one thanksgiving, my half sister stole food so we could eat sometimes. You think he ever knew what it was like to have to buy ONE USED tire just for the week to get to work?


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485468 - 02/14/20 01:24 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

I think anyone from Albuquerque knows what poor is even if they didn't suffer the dire poverty themselves. It is everywhere in New Mexico.

Doesn't it make the man seem a little more human knowing he once flipped burgers just like most of the rest of us did at some point or another?

I don't think it has been so long that he's forgotten.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
    #26485469 - 02/14/20 01:24 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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He can spend it, invest it or boof it for all I care! I’m arguing against wealth hoarding - a practice that shrinks the economy for EVERYONE




So what you are saying is he should sell all his Amazon shares to free up capital to spend, invest or boof? :lol:

I assume he would then invest all that money in Amazon shares. Those things seem to be gaining value all the time.

Unless you invest in things with value=zero, every investment would count as wealth hoarding. Wouldnt it?


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
    #26485475 - 02/14/20 01:28 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

His dad probably made him do it though, you're probably right about a lot of NM, have you ever been there? there is fucking MANSIONS out there, extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: Tripsurfer] * 1
    #26485480 - 02/14/20 01:31 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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He can spend it, invest it or boof it for all I care! I’m arguing against wealth hoarding - a practice that shrinks the economy for EVERYONE




So what you are saying is he should sell all his Amazon shares to free up capital to spend, invest or boof? :lol:

I assume he would then invest all that money in Amazon shares. Those things seem to be gaining value all the time.

Unless you invest in things with value=zero, every investment would count as wealth hoarding. Wouldnt it?



Of course not. I’m not pulling info out of my ass here - it’s basic economics. Owning shares doesn’t stimulate the economy. Real investment does. He can put $50b into developing a boof tube that also tells the weather for all I care...anything that creates jobs and requires buying materials and/or services.

Remember, he’d still have $70B left - more than he could spend in 10 wealthy lifetimes.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
    #26485484 - 02/14/20 01:32 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

They won't get it no matter how many analogies or metaphors or real time scenarios we state, lol. The thing is, they don't want to because they are blinded by the color green.:shrug:


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
    #26485485 - 02/14/20 01:34 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

But thats exactly what Amazon does; creating jobs with buying/selling materials


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485488 - 02/14/20 01:35 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

I am intimately familiar with much of New Mexico.

And yes, in looking at land for sale lately... there are some incredible ranches in the $50+ million dollar range not to mention all the swanky spots around Santa Fe.

The contrast can be especially sharp there.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485492 - 02/14/20 01:38 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

They won't get it no matter how many analogies or metaphors or real time scenarios we state, lol. The thing is, they don't want to because they are blinded by the color red:shrug:



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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485494 - 02/14/20 01:41 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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But thats exactly what Amazon does; creating jobs with buying/selling materials




What? I really don’t understand how Amazon’s function relates to investments or to Bezos’ personal wealth.

Amazon doesn’t create jobs if you factor in the thousands of small businesses that failed because they cant compete with Amazon.

The investment should entail buying products and services. As in, if he invests in a restaurant, he’ll need to buy plates (that a different business produces) and hire interior designers, among many other examples.

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They won't get it no matter how many analogies or metaphors or real time scenarios we state, lol. The thing is, they don't want to because they are blinded by the color green.:shrug:




Yeah, idk why I got so worked up. They’re obv impervious to logic.:shrug:


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: Tripsurfer] * 1
    #26485498 - 02/14/20 01:42 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

:lolsy: Touche'!


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485504 - 02/14/20 01:49 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

I vote Feldman dictator of all hoarded funds.

Hoarded funds includes any monies he doesn't see going towards concerts or otherwise circulating in ways he deems appropriate.

You'll probably have to supply credentials at the very least. Any econ background? Accounting? Math? Nevermind all that.

He's got a rough idea.

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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
    #26485509 - 02/14/20 01:54 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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But thats exactly what Amazon does; creating jobs with buying/selling materials




What? I really don’t understand how Amazon’s function relates to investments or to Bezos’ personal wealth.

Amazon doesn’t create jobs if you factor in the thousands of small businesses that failed because they cant compete with Amazon.

The investment should entail buying products and services. As in, if he invests in a restaurant, he’ll need to buy plates (that a different business produces) and hire interior designers, among many other examples.




Im not sure if there are any numbers on this but I actually think that in total more stuff is sold and more people are employed because of Amazon.


Looking at your restaurant example. The thing is, unless he's doing shitty business on purpose the same thing is going to happen. 1 restaurant becomes two restaurants becomes a 1000 restaurants and now he can buy his plates and whatnot in bulk, lowering cost. He can then lower restaurant prices pushing the single restaurant owners out of the market.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
    #26485516 - 02/14/20 01:57 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

OMFG! Really? He was so poor and like an average guy who wroked at Micky D's, dude PUH LEEEEZE!

Bezos' maternal grandfather was Lawrence Preston Gise, a regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in Albuquerque.[13] Gise retired early to his family's ranch near Cotulla, Texas, where Bezos would spend many summers in his youth.[11] Bezos would later purchase this ranch and expand it from 25,000 acres (10,117 ha) to 300,000 acres (121,406 ha).[14][15] His maternal grandmother was Mattie Louise Gise (née Strait), through whom he is a cousin of country singer George Strait.[16] Bezos often displayed scientific interests and technological proficiency; he once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room.[17]

:archiebunker:

Rich, connected, wealthy, numerous opportunities that the average person is not privvy to.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26485537 - 02/14/20 02:06 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

I never meant he was poor. Just that the fast food job was a solid average-person life experience for Bezos. He wasn't entirely sheltered from middleclassness.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador] * 1
    #26485541 - 02/14/20 02:07 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

Yes he was, that was forced on him by his parents I'm sure, to let him "see how hard it could be" etc...:scat: I'm so sure he volunteered for it and wanted to work there.:rolleyes:


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: Tripsurfer]
    #26485542 - 02/14/20 02:08 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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But thats exactly what Amazon does; creating jobs with buying/selling materials




What? I really don’t understand how Amazon’s function relates to investments or to Bezos’ personal wealth.

Amazon doesn’t create jobs if you factor in the thousands of small businesses that failed because they cant compete with Amazon.

The investment should entail buying products and services. As in, if he invests in a restaurant, he’ll need to buy plates (that a different business produces) and hire interior designers, among many other examples.




Im not sure if there are any numbers on this but I actually think that in total more stuff is sold and more people are employed because of Amazon.


Looking at your restaurant example. The thing is, unless he's doing shitty business on purpose the same thing is going to happen. 1 restaurant becomes two restaurants becomes a 1000 restaurants and now he can buy his plates and whatnot in bulk, lowering cost. He can then lower restaurant prices pushing the single restaurant owners out of the market.




Arguing that this is net win is full retard, especially because you are speculating every step of the way.


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: tyrannicalrex] * 1
    #26485551 - 02/14/20 02:18 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

His allowance was probably more than his paycheck. He has no idea what it’s like to be missing rent money. Just that one tiny aspect of poverty is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t lived it.
I mean when you exhaust all options, and still don’t have enough to pay the bills. That feeling...I honestly wouldn’t even wish it on him.
Thank god I was smart lucky enough not to have a kid until I started making ok money. I can’t even imagine the pain of a parent who can’t feed his son...

That’s what poverty is btw. It’s not an empty bank account or shitty clothes...it’s pure dread. You ever get on the wrong bus, then realize you now have to walk home because that was the last of your cash? You ever get cold sweats at the sight of bills? Ever tell your kids “Santa’s sick, so he postponed Christmas until Friday this year”?

It’s easy for people to judge if they don’t understand how real shit gets for poor people.

I think we’re getting to the bottom of why I got so worked up over this lol..


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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
    #26485623 - 02/14/20 03:12 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)

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His allowance was probably more than his paycheck. He has no idea what it’s like to be missing rent money. Just that one tiny aspect of poverty is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn’t lived it.
I mean when you exhaust all options, and still don’t have enough to pay the bills. That feeling...I honestly wouldn’t even wish it on him.
Thank god I was smart lucky enough not to have a kid until I started making ok money. I can’t even imagine the pain of a parent who can’t feed his son...

That’s what poverty is btw. It’s not an empty bank account or shitty clothes...it’s pure dread. You ever get on the wrong bus, then realize you now have to walk home because that was the last of your cash? You ever get cold sweats at the sight of bills? Ever tell your kids “Santa’s sick, so he postponed Christmas until Friday this year”?

It’s easy for people to judge if they don’t understand how real shit gets for poor people.

I think we’re getting to the bottom of why I got so worked up over this lol..




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You constantly make posts thatr fling middle school insults at people you don't like mixed in with maladjusted psychopathic comments about wanting to beat up the other poster with a crowbar.

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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
    #26485642 - 02/14/20 03:21 PM (4 years, 2 days ago)



Looks like the increase in Amazon employees is a lot higher than the decrease of Non-Amazon retail jobs


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