$150bn man Jeff Bezos is the richest person ever and this is how people are getting their heads round it
Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, has been confirmed as the richest man in modern history, with a personal fortune in excess of $150 billion – “excess” being the key word here.
Jeff Bezos is now the richest person in modern history https://t.co/bNhWM7VDXn #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/6nmySpt1WI
— Bloomberg Originals (@bbgoriginals) July 16, 2018
Some of these responses will make you feel better (honest). But some of them, well, have a read for yourself.
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Happy Amazon Prime Day!
– Jeff Bezos is the richest person in history and 1,430 Amazon employees in Ohio alone qualify for food stamps
– Warehouse employees are forced to work in extremely high temperatures/are docked paid time for bathroom breaks
– The company barely pays taxes— Julia Claire (@ohJuliatweets) July 16, 2018
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Jeff Bezos: What if you could buy things on the computer?
Capitalism: This is a brilliant idea and definitely not something a billion other people could’ve thought of. You’re the richest man in the world now.— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) May 10, 2018
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Jeff Bezos made himself the richest man in the world by forcing Amazon workers to meet quotas that are rising so fast they have piss in water bottles while on the clock because they can't afford to stop and use the bathroom.
— Tovarisch (@nwbtcw) July 16, 2018
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fuck jeff bezos and all this underlings for exploiting, abusing, and stealing from amazon workers
i will support the amazon strike in the primary way i can this morning, which is shitposting
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more like jeff deeznuts— Chambraigne Socialist (@bombsfall) July 16, 2018
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https://twitter.com/Wieneraaron/status/1019006845317312512
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Jeff Bezos is worth more than the GDP of Hungary, a country of 10 million people, and some of you still want to pretend there’s nothing wrong with our economic system ♂️
— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) July 17, 2018
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https://twitter.com/dearjhonletter/status/1019003982709002240