‘Petition to Not Allow Jeff Bezos Re-Entry to Earth’
A Change.org petition about the Amazon founder and chief executive officer circulated in June 2021.
A Change.org petition about the Amazon founder and chief executive officer circulated in June 2021.
Amazon’s chief executive officer Jeff Bezos is a frequent target of anti-billionaire ire, which continued with claims that Amazon was soliciting public donations for paid time off.
“Bezos math” once again circulated on social media, when the Amazon chief executive officer’s $165 million house purchase was placed in purported terms of a $60,000-a-year wage earner.
The Amazon chief executive officer’s $98.5 million “gift” to homelessness charities was called out for being a purported conditional and misrepresented sum.
Among popular tweets debating whether billionaires ought to exist was another example of how vastly different a billion was from a million.
A viral social media status update critiques Amazon’s Whole Foods over a purported holiday food drive arranged so that customers purchase food in-store and donate it to needy families.
People did the math on the Amazon CEO’s $98 million “gift” to the homeless, placing it in the context of middle-class money.
A viral Robert Reich tweet claimed that as the billionaire bought a lavish mansion, Amazon’s Whole Foods rescinded part-time employees’ healthcare benefits.
A tweet about Christopher Columbus, Jeff Bezos, and billionaires in general has been racing around social media, so we checked the math.