"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
1 Timothy 6:10
Posted on 06/18/2018 5:23:03 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest person in the world, is richer than he has ever been before. Since June 1, the tech titan's net worth has grown over $5 billion and now totals $141.9 billion, according to the Forbes World's Billionaires list. That makes Bezos worth roughly $49 billion more than Bill Gates and about $60 billion more than Warren Buffett.
This latest win for Bezos is just one of many he has enjoyed this year.
As Amazon's customer base sticks around despite the latest Prime latest price hike in exchange for a slew of services and perks, the company's stock has continued to increase in value. Even Buffett now regrets not investing in Amazon when he had the chance.
Earlier this year, Bezos officially became the richest person in the world and also helped make Amazon the second most valuable company in the world, behind Apple. And his success can arguably be traced back to a risk he took when he was 30 years old.
Bezos was a straight-A high school student and the class valedictorian, and he got accepted via early admission to Princeton, according to Brad Stone's biography "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon." He majored in computer science and electrical engineering, and then went on to work various finance and tech jobs after college.
It was while serving as a vice president at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw in the 1990s that Bezos came up with the idea to sell books over the Internet. Doing so, though, would mean taking a significant risk and ...
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“His employees are on food stamps while he spews out social justice propaganda.”
If they’re not satisfied with their pay are they not free to go work elsewhere?
Yes. I have used Walmart online. The experience was not very different and no worse than Amazon.
Walmart is not bad but I usually find prices cheaper on ebay than amazon. I have no idea how ebay leans.
Order pickers are worked so hard they burn out in just a few weeks. He could double their pay and hire more workers and still woun’t miss a nickel.
Order pickers are worked so hard they burn out in just a few weeks. He could double their pay and hire more workers and still woun’t miss a nickel.
Order pickers are worked so hard they burn out in just a few weeks. He could double their pay and hire more workers and still woun’t miss a nickel.
Order pickers are worked so hard they burn out in just a few weeks. He could double their pay and hire more workers and still woun’t miss a nickel.
Order pickers are worked so hard they burn out in just a few weeks. He could double their pay and hire more workers and still woun’t miss a nickel.
We’ve used walmart.com. Both delivery to our house and pick up at the store.
Also acehardware.com, same.
Had no problems with either.
Were you a millionaire in Canadian dollars? I think that’s like a $1,000 Merica dollars.
Who woulda thought that his little used book venture would ever amount to much?
"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
1 Timothy 6:10
“It’s not impossible.. it’s a choice of convenience.”
I’ve found it is actually easy to avoid giving rich liberals my money when I’m broke. ;-)
But, yeah, I get what you’re saying. I’m kind of at a point where I could almost see myself aligning with a modern Amish-like movement. The Amish use technology and innovations, just outdated versions of them. Even though I’ve always been a big fan of technological innovations, I think I could be comfortable without much more progress in this area.
We definitely trade away our birthright for convenience these days.
I’ve heard the same about Amazon employees...Over worked and WAY underpaid...
It’s the root of an evil not all evil.
And he’s a complete loser
A bald loser
Obviously not paying his workers enough.
Have you seen rent prices in Seattle?
/s
Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that he is a great guy or anything. I just enjoy making these kind of comparisons. He we have Donald Trump, who is arguably the richest President. (People talk about Washington and Kennedy, who knows?). To Bezos, Trump’s wealth is barely a rounding error.
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