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

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.

Also covered by CBC, CNN, and CNBC among other news outlets.


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday January 11 2019, @04:21AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday January 11 2019, @04:21AM (#784886) Journal

    I'm not confusing anything. Your error is in presupposing there is some objective measure of "worth" that exists independent of price.

    But "worth" is always dependent on the situation too. If you offered me a ton of gold or a bucket of water in my current situation, I'd be a fool not to take the gold. I could buy oceans of water with it. Your parable about which I would go a month without is irrelevant, since the gold will buy me enough water to live several lifetimes.

    If, however, I'm dying in a desert, I'd be a fool not to take the water. There is no such thing as objective worth. (Something the gold fanatics would do well to remember.)

    Yes, humans absolutely need some minimum amount of stuff like water and food, so that comes closest to having objective "worth" in almost any circumstance. But labor has no objective value, nor do most goods. The only value (or "worth") as you put it, is what someone else is willing to pay/give you for it.

    Value is both a personal concept and a social concept. Clearly you do not value Bezos personally as much as society collectively values him. But your personal estimation of his "worth" is nothing more than a subjective opinion.

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