> If he didn't do it someone else would have and for all we know they could have broken less bodies along the way.

That's a bold statement to make and I'm not sure I believe it. Even companies like Sears or Walmart who were better positioned to dominate the space missed the boat.

Like you said, it's never one person who changes the world. It's usually one talented person who has the right connections and gets a lot of luck at just the right time. There's no guarantee that someone else would have made the same choices and gotten the same breaks if Bezos didn't exist.

Amazon exists because of Bezos, but that doesn't mean he did it all by himself.