Stillton wrote:
Amazon could have sold it to get the money back/write it off, but instead chose to kill it off. This action alone removes money/greed as a possible explanation.
The immorality of these people is astounding. Did they miss kindergarten?
Jan
Well, they had their own kindergarten, and then their own school and college where they were taught that the rest of the population is not like them, even thought they look the same. They were told that the rest is just cattle to be used and farmed by this small group.
Cant stress this enough - it goes FAR BEYOND just plain old greed and power.
I wish I was kidding...
I'm sorry, but
WHAT?!?
I'm not going to say there's nobody who was raised the way you're saying, but Bill Gates, Sam Walton before him, and of course the new Internet billionaires almost all grew up in middle class society, and NO, their parents were not fabulously wealthy. Sure, they likely owned two cars (maybe three), and likely lived in a nice house in a nice neighborhood, but they weren't "destined" to be billionaires. More than 80% of billionaires were not born into billionaire families. Most wealthy people in the World are self-made. When kids inherit lots of money (i.e. millions) they generally blow it all in just a few years, and then end up with a house and a couple of cars maybe. Sure, billionaire children inherit generational wealth, but by the next generation there is normally less than $1 billion for each child, abd the wealth gets spread out naturally to their kids until their family is wealthy, but not fabulously wealthy. Sure, there are exceptions, like the children of the Rockefeller fortune, the grand children and great grand children of the Cargil fortune, Sam Walton's kids, etc.
To think all the wealthiest people in the World are as you describe would be a mistake. Most of the wealthiest people on Earth have gained their wealth in the past twenty to thirty years. I'm describing Jeff Bezos here, as well as others, like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bill Gates (though he's getting old now, and he was the World's youngest billionaire at one time).
This is where Mark Zuckerberg went to high-school:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardsley_High_School
This is where Jeff Bezos went to school:
Did you know he worked at a McDonald's in the kitchen, flipping burgers? Silver spoon for sure! (Granted, his adopted grandfather did have a very large ranch in Texas, so he definitely didn't grow up poor.)
Bill Gates? He started Microsoft in his "garage" for a reason, and that reason is not because his dad just bought him a new office building to work from.
