• HenchmanNumber3@lemm.ee
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    But Bezos’ earnings are in addition to what Amazon uses for personnel expenditures, so that’s not instead of, it’s in addition to the number of people Amazon already can and does employ. Something like ~1.5 million employees, though that includes higher paid employees as well as the warehouse and delivery personnel.

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      1 year ago

      I think the relevance of the observation relates to how the business’s income is distributed among all those receiving some share.