If Jeff Bezos gave all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus, he'd be left with exactly as much money as he had at the start of the pandemic. the.ink/p/billionaire-…
As a society we really haven't come to grips with the morality and ethics of allowing so much wealth to accumulate in so few hands.
Like, we talk a lot about a person's *right* to accumulate $200 billion in personal wealth, but not about the civic *responsibilities* that might come with that.
What does it mean when one person has the economic capacity to end homelessness or hunger for a decade or more? To some people that discussion ends at "well it's his money he can do what he wants and besides it isn't liquid," but that feels like a cop-out to me.
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