Slaves "had jobs" as well. Their masters just paid them in food, water, and shelter.

This whole thing about businesses "giving jobs" is ludicrous. American brainwashing. Businesses NEED workers. Not the other way around. Humans have always existed and survived for hundreds of thousands of years without "jobs". Businesses cannot survive without workers. Businesses would simply cease to exist without workers. People can still grow their own veggies and meat. Businesses can't generate profits without workers.

It actually cuts both ways. We workers need the business to exist for the work. The business needs our skills to continue being a business.

> People can still grow their own veggies and meat.

Not as an alternative means of even survival-level support if they don't have access to sufficient suitable real estate to do so.

People can still claim their own real-estate ;)

where?

That was a tongue-in-cheek comment about revolutions etc

"They do have jobs" is a very sad way to justify poor working conditions.

Meanwhile Jeff Bezos' fortune is approximately $1,000 per American household.

I would agree that Bezos is one greedy motherfucker. No doubt about it.

Ah, the story of the great job creators, who float majestically through the firmament shedding jobs like a fish sheds it's scales.

I was only showing the other side of equation... I'm as Libertarian as they come and also believe Karl Marx's theories made tons of sense...(I know that sounds a bit contradictory!)

Amazon needs to share its wealth much more, at least among its workers and also independent authors using it, and so on, and realize that it needs to support the ecosystem that allowed it, including things like more freedom and liberty for people, not less. This vast accumulation of wealth is bad news, even for capitalism itself, when you get right down to it. Bezos has a huge chance to make a stellar example to the world here, but so far...ummm...i mean why not?