IF THE COST OF THE JEFF BEZOS WEDDING DOESN’T OFFEND YOU, THERE’S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW
In case you were wondering, I don’t like Jeff Bezos. And in the past year, I’ve begun to really not like Jeff Bezos. But then again, I don’t seem to have the far too common American appreciation for the richest people in the country. I don’t tend to ascribe a greater sense of their intellect or knowledge. Well, except the intrinsic knowledge of what it feels like to be obscenely wealthy. But obscene wealth is just the start of my problem with Jeff Bezos. Though his wedding in some specific romance language country in Europe is making that particular detail much more offensive. And if you didn’t know already, I’m here to tell you it should offend you, too.
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THE COST OF THIS WEDDING FOR JEFF BEZOS IS ALMOST NOTHING IN CONTEXT TO HIS WEALTH
So how and why? Well, proportions for one. I saw that Newsweek made a point of talking about how not that expensive the Bezos wedding is, at an estimated amount between $47 and $56 million. And yes, that is quite an insane amount of money to consider, especially coming from somewhere in the increasingly nebulous middle class like I am. But here’s the proportion to consider. Jeff Bezos is worth roughly $244 billion, and that wedding cost is ONLY 0.0193-0.0230 percent of his net worth. Yet that’s still too generic for us folks who don’t own private jets and yachts. So here’s the kicker. In America, nurses have an average net worth of about $125,000, with that proportion for them translating to their spending $24.13 to $28.75 for a wedding.
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AND IN THE SAME WEEK, AN ALREADY UNTAXED JEFF BEZOS IS ABOUT TO HAVE A LOT FEWER TAXES
Is that starting to sink in, yet? This obscenely expensive, visible and celebrity attending to kiss the ring and be seen doing so wedding is costing Jeff Bezos about the same as a couple burgers at Five Guys for an American nurse. And yes, I kind of have a general, heartily big fuck you to all the famous people who are going, celebrating not just this ostentation, but normalizing it as a spectacle. And let’s be clear about this week and the Big, Beautiful bill that may be passed as soon as tomorrow, which includes massive tax cuts for the rich right along with massive cuts to the social safety net. Which, come to think of it, just might cost more than a few nurses their jobs.
But that tax cut could mean the next Bezos wedding could cost him the same as 3 or 4 burgers at Five Guys. Proportionally, you know?
