Jeff Bezos From Garage Startup to Space Pioneer | The Amazon Effect

At the time, Gates was the second-richest person in the world, behind Jeff Bezos. Yet he was arguing that extreme wealth concentration was a structural issue and that the system which helped create his fortune hadn’t evolved fast enough to keep pace with modern inequality. That position is rare among billionaires as most ultra-wealthy figures fight tax increases quietly, through lobbying or silence. Whether you agree with him or not, it exposed a rare divide inside the billionaire class: Some us