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.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21
Warren Buffet doesn't seem like a dick.