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Borrowed $250k ($550k in today's money) from his family to start Amazon, has so much money now that money has ceased to have meaning. This asshole has never lived a normal life and yet he thinks he knows what kind of problems people are facing today.
That's not a bad thing. Families should do it more often: pool their money and start a business. The return rates are higher.
They are absolutely not higher, for every Jeff Bozos there's hundreds of John Does, who never made it.
The system is not your friend.
But the corporations are, who take the saved money? They pay the bare minimum. The only way to beat the system is to make own decisions.
Statements like these always remind me of the quote: "For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices." - Audre Lorde
IMO using the system in a way that abuses the system only perpetuates another system of abuse.
What does that mean? I can read it in too many directions.
That's what currently is happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
More competition is needed, more market economy, to make the system fair again. It's not abusing the system to start a business.
No, it's just using the system as it is intended. But most businesses fail.
We need to abolish the system.
That's ok. It's posdible to invest in more than one company.
And do what?