• lurklurk@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Amazon has been really successful in several domains and he’s owned a lot of it from the start

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      13 hours ago

      How does owning something turn into hundreds of billions of dollars? I own things too, they don’t turn into hundreds of billions

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          12 hours ago

          I’m sorry to ask such elementary questions, but why do others value it?

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            11 hours ago

            It’s not an elementary question.

            Best I can guess is: plenty of people, plenty of reasons. Which is a stupid answer.

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          12 hours ago

          Is that how value is determined? How others perceive value? Isn’t that kind of subjective? Is there a possibility he isn’t worth that much money? Could he be worth even more? Not like margin of error, but dramatically more or less like 20-30% off one way or the other?