Money is a rationing system. For real world goods it makes some sense, absent central planning. For digital life, and intellectual property money is a bad fit.

The disparities between rich and poor were getting smaller for much of the 20th century. Rich now has a new top bracket which is insane. And, its built on disruptive digital finance models.

Bezos however, is an old school robber baron. His money directly correlates to the relative poverty of his workers and his opposition to unions has a rational basis which equals his wealth.