Tag: Jeff Bezos

Amazon set to earn billions from Brexit as thousands of UK businesses struggling to sell into the EU following new Brexit rules will turn to Amazon FBA.

Amazon has strongly encouraged its workers to vote against unionisation in texts, messaging and an anti-union website.

Nearly 30 years after he started Amazon in his garage, Bezos will become its executive chairman - a move he said would give him “time and energy” to focus on his other ventures.

Oxfam calculated that it would cost £103 billion to vaccinate the world’s 7.8 billion people against the virus - around £6.50 per jab.

“The fact that the world’s richest billionaires are massively increasing their wealth at a time when millions are facing hardship, is evidence of a broken economy."

Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person, with a fortune estimated at $185bn, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, up from $113bn before the pandemic.

In the year to date, Bezos has added $67.2 billion to his net worth.

"Perhaps it was always there in us, or perhaps it was Mrs Thatcher who started it when she said, There is no such thing as society."

Uncovering one of the biggest upward wealth transfers of our generation.