Let me explain.
We all must remember when he started Amazon out of nothing, and for a few years he lost money, economists told us that his business model would never succeed, the stock was almost at a penny-stock level, but Bezos just kept at it and he made it what it is today.
Do I agree with some of his current business practices, the fact that he works his people hard, that he doesn't pay warehouse workers better, and a few more? No, I don't, but we must accept the fact that the current labour laws allow him to do those things in order to maximize profits. That we anger when Amazon opens a warehouse in some city and the city allows him to pay no taxes in order to bring jobs to the city? Who allows that? And are you one of those people who when your boss comes around and says "Hey _____ I have decided to give you a promotion and a raise of salary" you say..."no, there are people out there who are not being paid well, I refuse the promotion and the raise, thank you."
And by the way, he pays his tech people very well and everyone I know who works for Amazon in tech loves it.
Does he deserve to have a $500 million yacht? of course he does, if anyone of us had built an empire as he has we would be doing it too (not me, I don't like yachts, but maybe a great personal airplane), so why criticize him? Let us all learn from him, lets teach our kids how he built an empire so that maybe one of our kids will do too. Instead of going after Bezos lets continue lobbying politicians to do the right thing and to not allow people like Bezos to not pay taxes, and close all the loopholes that will benefit the country.
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