Imagine you bake cakes by hand, how many can you make? Few dozen a day? Imagine that you then put together a machine that automatically makes cakes - thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of cakes a day. It was your idea, and sure, other people helped make it, but you initiated the machine building process. You now have a warehouse with million of cakes in it - would you also argue that you didn't put in the work to have them, since they weren't made by hand?

Bezos built an empire. And like all empires, they are built by other people. But it's Bezos who started it.

If I make an invention that provides $1000 value to 100 million people, the work i put in is worth $100B. It doesn't matter if i did that in a day or decade.

But I can click a button and a book and a computer and a pair of scissors show up, giving me free time for things I want to do.

And this happens for more people than I can even imagine.

I assume since he's handing over some of the responsibility that he might do something beneficial to the human race with his money.

C'mon, he put in at least 4 dollars worth of work.

True, but he did create value worth 100b.

Why does it matter how much you suffer or work or whatever? It's all about results.

Is it fair? No idea, but that is how the world works. If you don't agree, you can take a look at societies that value the work inputted, such as communism. But in the end the real world cares about value, not work.