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rayineryesterday at 10:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

> We're not talking about Bezos's profit share for one year. We're talking about giving the workers a bigger share of the profit.

Those are the same thing, because you can only take Bezos's 9% of Amazon once. If you took all of Bezos's Amazon stock and put it in a trust for the workers, the profits from that would have amounted to $6,300 per worker last year. That's a nice bonus, but it's not 10x like you said.


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lkjdsklfyesterday at 10:51 PM

I forgot Jeff's current amazon holdings are all teh shares in existence

TimorousBestieyesterday at 10:56 PM

This is “my job depends on never admitting how inequitable labor relations are” energy.