Has there ever been one?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/reggie-theus_n_4043445.html

A trillion is 1,000 billion.

A bazzilionaire. Let's stay accurate.

That there are others whose math skills are far superior and the reminders for accuracy....

But....technically, wouldn't someone who had even a 100 Billion, be the closest to being a Trillionaire that has ever been?

For now. For just a little while longer.

Especially because of the reporting the Washington Post is doing....

...Uncle Vladimir is far more wealthy.

he would still be worth more. Obviously, Gates has other priorities.

With Bezos's great wealth, you'd think he could afford to stop advertising on Breitbart.com. Guess he still needs the bigots' business.

Kind of has a bit in common with their audience.

Seems like a vanity move I guess.

He's given it to his foundation. He still controlls it. Until it happens I don't believe him.

which has just been surpassed by Bezos.

He supports gay marriage

...by considering canceling my Amazon account today.

But they have stuff that is pretty much hard/impossible to find elsewhere. I ordered a set of batteries CR3032 I couldn't find in stores anywhere around here.

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-generous-people-in-the-world-2015-10/#1-bill-gates-20

Bill Gates is still on top with Warren Buffet second

http://www.salon.com/2014/09/27/4_ways_amazons_ruthless_practices_are_crushing_local_economies_partner/
4 ways Amazon’s ruthless practices are crushing local economies
Jeff Bezos has forged an empire by exploiting low-wage workers and extracting billions in government subsidies
Jim Hightower, AlterNet

snip...Even by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com’s alpha male, Jeff Bezos, is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. As overlord of Amazon, by far the largest online marketer in the world (with more sales than the next nine US online retailers combined), Bezos has the monopoly power to stalk, weaken, and even kill off retail competitors—going after such giants as Barnes & Noble and Walmart and draining the lifeblood from hundreds of smaller Main Street shops. He also goes for the throats of both large and small businesses that supply the millions of products his online behemoth sells. They’re lured into Amazon by its unparalleled database of some 200 million customers, but once in, they face unrelenting pressure to lower what they charge Amazon for their products, compelled by the company to give it much better deals than other retailers can extract.

Lest you think predator is too harsh a term, consider the metaphor Bezos himself chose when explaining how to get small book publishers to cough up deep discounts as the price for getting their titles listed on the Amazon website. As related by Businessweek reporter Brad Stone, Bezos
 instructed his negotiators to stalk them “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” Bezos’ PR machine tried to claim this sneering comment was just a little “Jeff joke,” but they couldn’t laugh it off, for a unit dubbed the “Gazelle Project” had
 actually been set up inside Amazon.

This top-level team focused on doing 
exactly what Bezos 
instructed: Pursue vulnerable small 
publishers and squeeze their wholesale
 prices to Amazon down to the point of no profit, thus allowing the online retailer to underprice every other book peddler. When Stone exposed Gazelle last year in his book, The Everything Store, the project was suddenly rebranded with a bloodless name—“Small Publisher Negotiation Program”—but its mission remains the same.

Today, Amazon sells a stunning 40 percent of all new books, up from 12 percent five years ago. It is even more dominant in the digital book market, which is fast catching up to the sales level of physical books and is widely perceived as the future of publishing. Electronic book sales were non-existent just seven years ago; today about a third of all books sold are e-books, and Amazon sells two-thirds of those. Of course, Amazon also owns Kindle, the largest-selling device for reading digital books...snip

Amazon Salaries
Job Title Amazon Salary
Fulfillment Associate $12.40/hr
Warehouse Associate $12.53/hr
Amazon Warehouse Worker $12.41/hr
Process Assistant $15.40/hr
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https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Hourly-Pay-E6036.htm

As part time jobs go, the pay is decent, but what if you want to work full time?

And if the fascists in the senate pass there "skinny" sh*t health bill which is a fraud, they have not allowed the public to do any public comment or hearings, this is just outrageous

We all know Donnie Doll Hands is THE richest person EVER. His empire is yyyyouuge!!!

let's contact our reps, and senators to go afterAmazon, and break it up into pieces. It's a monoploy.