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If Jeff Bezos’s Wealth were taxed at 90% he would still have ~$17BN left over. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-01/bezos-s-wealth-soars-to-171-6-billion-to-top-pre-divorce-record">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...
With $17BN you can buy every NBA franchise — All 30 NBA franchises and have almost $2BN to spare (Forbes values them collectively at $15.3 billion). https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/09/19/what-billion-can-buy-you/0NdT5SAI0M0j6IpsceU2dJ/story.html">https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/...
With $17BN you could buy 850 mansions equivalent to Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s new $20 million California home.
You would have more $ than collective gross domestic product of tax havens Andorra ($4 billion), Liechtenstein ($5.1 billion) and Monaco ($6 billion), with $1 billion to spare.
$17BN - 10% of Bezos’ net worth - is as much as France have to an entire aerospace industry https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/business/France-aerospace-industry.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/0...
You could buy the Miami Marlins 17X over https://www.rd.com/list/what-can-a-billion-dollars-buy-you/">https://www.rd.com/list/what...
Suppose you had *just* one billion dollars. You could spend $5,000 a day for more than 500 years before you would run out of money. https://kool1079.com/how-to-spend-1-billion-in-25-years/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral">https://kool1079.com/how-to-sp...
It’s an absolutely disgraceful policy failure that individuals are permitted to hoard gargantuan resources like this, through monopoly rents, while so many live in hunger, illness,poverty and despair.
According to UN officials, "$30 billion per year is needed to end world hunger". Yet Bezos decided not to end world hunger today. https://thomas-peham.com/projects/world-hunger">https://thomas-peham.com/projects/...
