Some news sources say Amazon has 750,000 employees while Wikipedia estimates it at 1,000,000. That means it would cost between $78,750,000,000 and $105,000,000,000. Rounding to get rid of so many zeros, it's 79 to 105 billion. Bloomberg reports that Bezos' net wealth has swelled from 74 to 189.3 billion in 2020. So if you only look at net wealth, it's possible. However the bulk of his wealth is tied up in 57 million shares of Amazon stock worth 189.251 billion. This means he does not have enough cash to give out as the original post asks.
At least he didn’t let down a bunch of third graders and give them laptop batteries instead of a college education when it came time for them to graduate.
Post like this really should be banned by the mods at this point. They are way too common, and worst of all are not even true. The people that post this stuff have not the first idea of how money works, and actually think that Bezos walks around with billions in liquid money.
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nerdbrain87 on October 9th, 2020 at 12:15 UTC »
Some news sources say Amazon has 750,000 employees while Wikipedia estimates it at 1,000,000. That means it would cost between $78,750,000,000 and $105,000,000,000. Rounding to get rid of so many zeros, it's 79 to 105 billion. Bloomberg reports that Bezos' net wealth has swelled from 74 to 189.3 billion in 2020. So if you only look at net wealth, it's possible. However the bulk of his wealth is tied up in 57 million shares of Amazon stock worth 189.251 billion. This means he does not have enough cash to give out as the original post asks.
questionhorror on October 9th, 2020 at 12:33 UTC »
At least he didn’t let down a bunch of third graders and give them laptop batteries instead of a college education when it came time for them to graduate.
Vycrumus on October 9th, 2020 at 13:29 UTC »
Post like this really should be banned by the mods at this point. They are way too common, and worst of all are not even true. The people that post this stuff have not the first idea of how money works, and actually think that Bezos walks around with billions in liquid money.