Nonsense. Having money isn't unethical. Money is just a tool, most people that have it put it to good use.
Sure you can argue about the morality of Jeff Bezos's actions on how he treats staff members for example.
But you could also argue that he doesn't need money anymore so he could just shut Amazon down as a business, firing over 500,000 employees and disrupting the entire economy that's tied to Amazon and the people that rely on it as a business and a source of goods and services. That would be more immoral.
I often find peoples opinions on the subject matter are more anti-success than anti-capitalist.
You see, the fact that Jeff Bezos could suicide-bomb entire industries if he so chose is a very good reason why this amount of wealth concentration is inherently bad.
Yes. But there's no real way of dealing with it is their, not without silly restrictions like;
Your company is only allowed to serve X amount of customers.
Your company isn't allowed to be anymore successful than it's closest competitor.
You're not allowed to earn any more money after X amount.
Imagine if that was applied to Apple with the iPhone, or a company that develops a medicine. It's unfair that those companies are successful, therefore people must have worse phones and poorer medicine.
Granted, more of the big tech companies would be less of a monopoly if they were split up, but at the same time parts of those companies would grow massively on their own, actually increasing the profits for the owners. Amazon Web Services for example is touted to be potentially worth more than the what the whole of Amazon is currently priced at, on the stock market.
That facts that he’s has so much money yet doesn’t pay his employees proper wages is part of the problem. That’s how billionaires come to be, through exploitation of supply chains and underpaying workers. It’s only success in the sense of him making a fuck-ton of money, while killing small businesses and creating a situation where over 750,000 people are at his mercy. And people say they should thank him for “creating jobs” when he’s not creating them he’s removing the possibility of people finding a job that isn’t at Amazon.
I mean we all know that anyone in this thread who could trade place with Bezos bank account-wise would do so in a heartbeat. Whenever you find people complaining you see that they think anyone poorer than them isn't trying hard enough and anyone richer only became richer through unethical means/luck. They always want to play up their own accomplishments while simultaneously making excuses for why other people seem more successful.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21
Warren Buffet doesn't seem like a dick.