Amazon. Bezos. Money.
So, all this stuff about Bezos giving away the majority of his $124 billion wealth during his lifetime... do you think he's considered starting by paying his employees properly and helping them achieve a decent quality of life?
@eclectech I'm going to guess the "Bezos Charitable Foundation" will be set up, and employing both Bezos and his offspring for tax reasons.
not sure why I suspect this...
@evilstevie That sounds depressingly believable. At least his performative hey-I'm-not-as-bad-as-Musk actions might lead to some good for someone, but I do wish the concept of valuing employees and paying tax was higher on the list of things to do.
@eclectech depends on the articles of the charity. at the end of it all, he still gets to steer how his money's spent after 'giving it all away' which is silly.
@evilstevie Yup. The idea that one person is a better judge of where money is needed than a democratically elected government is pretty shocking.
I mean, you look at our democratically elected government and want to cry at that point, but still better than one person by virtue of their wealth.
@eclectech makes me think of parents getting their kids booktokens.
granted, to me this was a bonus because hey more books, but for many of my classmates it was their parents dictating where they could spend money they were given