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False dichotomy - they never said he was inconsequential, just that his workers have done the majority of the work - which is objectively true.

If Bezos didn't need those workers - if he genuinely created every cent of value in his empire on his own, picked and boxed and delivered every book himself - why did he ever hire anybody?

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But it isn't a false dichotomy. The claim I was responding to stated that the workers had created nearly all of the 200 billion in wealth, which would make Bezos's efforts hardly consequential.

And with your line of reasoning I should be mad when my doctor spends 30 seconds checking me and makes a diagnosis and then receives the lions share of the pay. He couldn't do his job with his nurses, office workers, and other employees. But I'm not mad, because he's doing something they can't.

Just like Bezos did something no one else could do at the time.

The difference is that you could replace the workers with other bodies and the wealth would still have been created. Replacing Bezos would mean Amazon wouldn’t even exist.

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