Life is Pareto, theft amplifies pareto-ness (see Russian oligarchs during and after USSR)
Do you think Amazon "won" this market just by having more cash in the beginning?
Jeff started it, and did efficiently, so that he didn't had to sell out to too much VC. He manages one of the most efficient companies in the world. and plenty of employees have equity, I wish companies here did the same.
No doubt you factored in that 40% of the CAR is under 14. (And fully 60% is under 25).
The denominator also counts. And that's ENTIRELY controlled by the good folk of the CAR.
Also “someone that is basically a typist“ is so... dismissive. If I were paid for my typing I’d be broke, my most productive days are often days I type the least. I am paid for my reasoning and deduction, not my ability to type.
You’re confusing the work for the medium.
Does Stephen King deserve more per word than a courtroom stenographer?
Though to be fair, a good counterargument to what I just said is that likely something else would've existed, so it's not true that trillions wouldn't exist, just the difference between Amazon and the next best thing. And there are still plenty of good reason to tax Jeff Bezos heavily enough to make sure there is less disparity, or organize society differently to not allow such a large difference in wealth. I mostly don't agree with those arguments, but obviously there are some good ones.
For example, He's built his business to be bigger while reducing the number of small businesses. Is that better for society? Why?
Productivity in many fields certainly seems deeply exponential, so why shouldn’t compensation be?