"Jeff Bezos makes some $2,537 every second of the day...nearly three times more in one second than the median worker in this country makes in an entire week." said Bernie Sanders.
Bezos has an estimated net worth of over $200 billion, while the average U.S. household has a net worth of $748,000 according to the Federal Reserve.
U.S. Census Bureau data shows Bezos's wealth is 739,489 times the median net worth of Americans who have reached retirement age.
Bezos' wealth has grown by more than 12,000% in the last 23 years, since he was first named one of the country's richest people, with a net worth of $1.6 billion, in 1998.
Between October 2019 and October 2020, Bezos became $80 billion richer even as the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis forced millions of Americans to turn to food banks for the first time, left tens of millions unemployed, and displaced thousands of people due to uneven state-level protection from eviction.
Sanders Denounces 'Morally Obscene' Wealth as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Steps Down | Common Dreams News
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