Michael Hurst
1 min readAug 28, 2020

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Bull. We’re talking about incentives to productive labor. Bezo’s wealth is based on his taking a slice of every transaction. Yes, his entrepreneurship produced a value that deserves to make him rich. But he doesn’t work a million hours a day, nor is his labor worth millions of times more per hour than mine, or yours.

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Michael Hurst
Michael Hurst

Written by Michael Hurst

Economist and public policy analyst, cyclist and paddler, and incorrigible old coot.

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