>They deserve their wealth because you keep buying and using their products.
Can you elaborate on this? It doesn't follow at all to me. If somebody makes billions and another person makes thousands, but the billionaire does not work proportionally hard or deliver proportional value to society or does not behave morally, and I buy products from both people, you may (and should) criticize me. However, there's no logical reason that means the billionaire "deserves" all their wealth, if we are using the word "deserve" by its normal conversational definition. The offloading of 100% of responsibility to the consumer seems like a really weak scape-goat based on emotions.
Everyone involved was acting voluntarily. No one's forcing people to work at Amazon, nor to buy from Amazon. We all set up these rules of the game, and he played and won.
Don't get me wrong, I think he's an ass. He took Captain Kirk to space, but then dissed him on the ground to pour champagne on the desert. Also I really miss used book stores.
But as a businessman I don't see how he doesn't deserve what he has, he's earned it, eh?
I very much do put the blame on "the consumer", they are the ones who keep giving Bezos money!
Can you elaborate on this? It doesn't follow at all to me. If somebody makes billions and another person makes thousands, but the billionaire does not work proportionally hard or deliver proportional value to society or does not behave morally, and I buy products from both people, you may (and should) criticize me. However, there's no logical reason that means the billionaire "deserves" all their wealth, if we are using the word "deserve" by its normal conversational definition. The offloading of 100% of responsibility to the consumer seems like a really weak scape-goat based on emotions.