30 Dec 2021 8:21 pm
LibDave » 30 Dec 2021, 9:05 pm » wrote: ↑ He said that because he made his money from his amazon investments. So he was thanking his employees and his customers. That doesn't mean he didn't earn the money and it wasn't his. Are you dim?
Similar to a grocery store owner thanking his employees and customers because without them he wouldn't be in business. But this isn't to say it wasn't his money. It is a customary and polite thing to do in the US. Obviously everyone knows the employees were paid for their labor and if they didn't decide to work there Amazon would have hired other workers. And Customers shopped there because they got what they wanted and perhaps they like the service. But it's still money he earned.
It certainly wasn't my money. Wasn't the taxpayers money. He didn't thank me or the US government or the taxpayers. So what business is it of yours or mine what he spends his money on. If I drive to Mexico on my vacation do I need government permission to do so. I don't use my money to do that either and the government doesn't fund it. I may even thank the gas station attendant when I stop for gas and refreshment. But does that mean they paid for my vacation to Mexico?
Under your twisted logic next time I go to fill up my car with gas I should pay the clerk double. Once to reimburse the store for the gas and labor costs and once again to reimburse the clerk for paying for the gas she didn't pay for. I think I'll just politely thank the clerk and leave it at that. Shall we? Just as Jeff Bezos did in your video. Good for him. He looks like a good guy to work for.
he manipulated the laws of the land to gain immense wealth and power.
As did Stalin in his time. And others before him.
I guess they all “earned it”. Fair enough.