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title = "Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-10-26T21:17:00+02:00
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
weight = 2001
image_dir = "blog/images"
image_max_width = 600
Abstract = "Washington Post was a small purchase"
Listening = "Moonspell - Irreligious"
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Tech billionaire is being evil again.
This time [Jeff Bezos kills Washington Post's endorsement for one of the US presidential candidates.](https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279602/jeff-bezos-washington-post-kamala-harris-endorsement)
It doesn't matter which one, but people are canceling their subscriptions.
But, let's face it.
He is too rich to care.
Bezoss bought Washington Post [a decade ago](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html) for 250000000 USD (25 million).
This seems a lot but almost the entire human race, but not for him.
At the moment of buying the gazette, his net worth was 25000000 (25,2 billion).
It was less than 1% of his net worth.
If you bought the entire Austen Powers collection on Amazon, it would cost you 13,7USD (I lie here, as this is today price).
For you to care as much as Bezos about buying Washington Post, you would need to have just shy of 1370USD.
In 2013.
But in 2024, his net worth grew to 211000000000 (211 billion).
Are you 10x richer than 10 years ago?
But then, if you bought that BluRay 10 years ago for that 13,7USD, you would now have 13700SD.
Would you even care about that BluRay?
I'm guessing you have already given it _for free_ to someone.
So, if Washington Post died today, he would not notice.
But what are some other things he owns some stake in, that you can stop using?
{{< image forced_width="250" class="pull-right" alt="Headshot of a bold, white man with a scar. This is a character Dr Evil from Austen Powers series of movies" file="dr-evil.jpg" >}}
Jeff Bezos, circa 2025
{{< /image >}}
- Amazon
- Whole Foods
- Zappos
- Twitch
- MGM
- Audible
- IMDB
- Ring
- Eero
- Goodreads
- ComiXology
- Cloud9 IDE
- Antropic
- Blue Origin
- Book Depisitory
- Airbnb
- Workday
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