Bezos strikes back lol

The RCP boys have thoughts (on May 21) about poor, beleaguered Jeff Bezos and his much discussed interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, wherein he says that "doubling" his taxes (notice he did not say "raising") won't help the "teacher in Queens" (which is not wrong, since 2 times ZERO is still zero):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsypO3iFiqA

(The Bezos segment starts around the 10 minute mark.) 

You can watch the full interview (if you have a strong stomach):

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/20/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos.html

I was so outraged, I dropped this comment:

Here's the part the RCP guys were agreeing with and I was furious over. First, what AOC said that Bezos was responding to:

AOC laid out her position earlier this month on the podcast, It’s Open with Ilana Glazer: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”

Bezos responds when speaking to Andrew Ross Sorkin in the CNBC interview:

“Well, it’s not correct on its face. Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have ten employees, and you make a little bit of money, right? This is one outlet. And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then you open a second outlet, right? And now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees. And you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened 1,000 outlets, you are a billionaire, right? And by the way, this is a real-life story. It happens all the time. It’s In-N-Out Burger. It’s, you know, Raising Cane’s Chicken. At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical? It didn’t. There was one outlet, and then there were two, and then there were three. The way you make $1 billion or $100 million or $10 million or anything is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with $1 billion, right?”

 Um, no, not unless you engage in predatory practices with your vendors and steal money from your workers, right?