Jeff Bezos becomes the first person ever worth $200 billion.

"ohh gee how impressive"
'I don't give a shit how rich any human being gets, fuck him, where the fuck are his tax files, i wanna see those'

@FrodoSwaggins if covid doesn't decide to turn everyone into a zombie, leaving only a cop in a coma, he will be dead n they dont hand licenses to dead ferrari owners

@FrodoSwaggins "If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models." -- Lester B. PEARSON

@F1973 "Oh nuh! We should create a GoFundMe for him immediately!"

Time to boycott AWS maybe? And prime video? And stop buying shit on Amazon? How much of his wealth is in Amazon shares? Or are those his savings?

@notoriousmonk There's no need to boycott when they don't even offer that much to begin with.

@Jilano that would be a fair argument (but still have issues) if there was a fixed amount of money in the world, but there isn't. Bezos _generates_ a ton of value which also needs to be factored in.

Not saying I disagree in general (though I do disagree with the generic "having money bad" argument) but yeah. It isn't that simple.

First Businessman*

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