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When I Thought I Couldn’t Despise Jeff Bezos More, Coronavirus Happened.
The global pandemic has reminded me why the Amazon CEO represents everything wrong with the American economy.
In the span of just a few weeks, over 30 million people have been forced to file for unemployment due to the economic impact of the coronavirus. While small businesses shut their doors, unemployment websites crash, and a significant number of elected officials seem to think their measly one time checks of $1200 dollars are sufficient to get us through this, there’s no denying that the web of trauma this virus is inflicting only seems to grow wider and more elaborate by the day. But of course, there are a handful of people and companies that are thriving under these devastating circumstances, and unsurprisingly the CEO of Amazon happens to be one of them.
Just when I thought I couldn’t despise Jeff Bezos more than I already do I stumbled across a Bloomberg article, detailing how the global pandemic has affected the wealth of some of the world’s richest individuals and families.
In it Sophie Alexander, Tom Maloney, and Tom Metcalf write:
“…Leading the group is Bezos, who has added almost $24 billion to his fortune in 2020, as well as MacKenzie Bezos, who was left with…
