I want to ask you to clear your mind for a moment and count to 10.
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In those 10 seconds, Jeff Bezos, the owner and founder of Amazon, made more money than the median employee of Amazon makes in an entire year. An entire year.
Think about that.
Think about how hard that family member has to work for an entire year, the days she or he goes into work sick, or has a sick child, or struggles to buy school supplies or Christmas presents, to make what one man makes in 10 seconds.
Jeff Bezos has so much money that he says the only way he could possibly spend it all is on space travel.
Space travel. Have you ever heard of such a thing? It is absolutely absurd.
Well here is a radical idea: Instead of attempting to explore Mars or go to the moon, how about Jeff Bezos pays his workers a living wage?
