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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)whether they oppose a wealth tax or not
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)90% means nothing to them but numbers on a spreadsheet. We can use the money to feed and care for so many more.
MadLinguist
(790 posts)Do rich people just have more assholes than everybody else?
Paka
(2,760 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)Just bigger
intheflow
(28,501 posts)was probably already in place for most of those bathrooms. And if its already there, use it so none of your guests have to wait for the loo at any given party. Seems extreme to us little folk, but I can see me making the same call if I had that kind of money, tbh.
Though I admit, the idea of his having such severe bowel discomfort 24/7 that he needs to be able to duck inside a stall immediately to avoid soiling himself is a charming counter narrative to ponder. 🙂
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)appalachiablue
(41,171 posts)IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I have the notion that I have enough - and for that I am thankful.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)of their own.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)else must lose."
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)evemac
(132 posts)Since it was an itty bitty store on Lamar in Austin in the '80s. The minute Amazon took over, I was done. I will never go in there again.
Liberal In Texas
(13,576 posts)It isn't much different than Randalls/Tom Thumb/Albertsons or Kroger.
Thank the food god we still have HEBs Central Market.
(Oh and Trader Joes works too.)
crazytown
(7,277 posts)wearing 2 carat rings?
I have friend who was a very senior engineer with Amazon Web Services. Amazon flew him coach.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)This kind of wealth is immoral and insane!
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)isnt it counter intuitive to take health care away from your employees? When people are health and not worried about going bankrupt if they get sick, they come to work which benefits them, their families, the employer and lots of other people. Jesus. I own a small business that provides health insurance to our 7 employees. I could have any luxury home in MT if I didnt have to pay the premium for their insurance. AND, I couldnt enjoy that home or live with myself if I didnt provide insurance. Its a win win to have healthy happy employees. Fuck Bezos.
mucifer
(23,565 posts)dalton99a
(81,578 posts)It is a good and well-run company
Vinca
(50,303 posts)I hope there's an indoor pool or two. What self-respecting billionaire would buy a giant mansion without a pool?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,040 posts)Those roads and airports don't build themselves.
Nor is the carbon properly accounted for when goods travel half way around the world to inflate 1% pockets.
Farmer-Rick
(10,211 posts)While a few blocks away, another small family can not find one home with 1 bathroom they can afford to live in.
A few blocks away from Bezo's 1,006 light fixtures an elderly woman has to decide to eat or pay for her medicine.
This is capitalism and how it makes the most cruel and immoral situations normal.
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)He did buy the Washington Post, and their reporters have done the digging that might bring this Republican/Trump nightmare to an end. There are many Amazon -related things I do not like, but I keep reminding myself of the Washington Post.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)It was an investment for him as much as anything else
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)spike jones
(1,686 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)Is this an extra home for him or is he re-locating?