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Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years

posted by Snow on Wednesday January 09 2019, @09:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the prenups-are-very-high-IQ dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jeff-bezos-amazon-ceo-worth-137-billion-to-divorce-wife-of-25-years

"Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, the Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner has announced, potentially leading to the costliest divorce settlement in history with $137 billion at stake."

The richest man in the world, currently worth about $137 billion, according to Bloomberg, made the divorce announcement on Wednesday on his Twitter.

[...]The split could lead [to] the costliest divorce is[sic] history, even if the couple doesn’t divide the money equally. There are no reports indicating the couple has a prenuptial agreement, meaning the wealth accumulated during their marriage would have to be split evenly.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 11 2019, @03:39AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 11 2019, @03:39AM (#784870) Journal

    Nobody is chosing to pay him that much except himself and the board

    That's sufficient.

    When you set your own salary, it's really hard to claim that the fact that you're getting paid that much is evidence of the value of your work.

    Where is the money coming from? It's not magically created.

  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday January 11 2019, @04:14AM (1 child)

    by Immerman (3985) on Friday January 11 2019, @04:14AM (#784881)

    No, it's not magically created. It's created by the people actually doing the work to generate the wealth - his employees.

    And he is able to take more of that wealth for himself than he has earned, because Amazon has far more negotiating power to abuse than any individual job applicant does.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 11 2019, @04:59AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 11 2019, @04:59AM (#784896) Journal

      It's created by the people actually doing the work to generate the wealth - his employees.

      How many of them have started up several hundred billion dollar companies? Doing a low value job like packer is not near equivalent to creating and running a company that employs over half a million people or ships so many things for so many people.

      And of course, you miss the most important people of all, the customers who bought Amazon's products.