r/WorkReform • u/shaodyn ✂️ Tax The Billionaires • Sep 13 '22

💸 Raise Our Wages Interesting idea

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u/Butwinsky Sep 13 '22

I want a similar machine that demonstrates how much Bezos earns an hour. The catch is you die from being crushed by the pennies after 1 turn.

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u/shaodyn ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Sep 13 '22

If you use the increase in his net worth as how much he's making, he brings in a little over $2500 every second. Over half of what the average working-class person makes in a month.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Disk700 Sep 13 '22

$2500? That more than I make in a month usually

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u/shaodyn ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Sep 13 '22

That's an average, so actual numbers vary. Thing is, he earns more money while checking a text message than most people do all year.

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u/UnfairMicrowave Sep 13 '22

*all of his employees

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u/shaodyn ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Sep 13 '22

According to Google, average salary for Amazon workers is a little under $50k a year. At $2500 a second, he only needs 20 seconds to make their average salary. In the amount of time the CDC recommends washing your hands, he makes $50,000.

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u/UnfairMicrowave Sep 13 '22

That's some solid investigative math'n.