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    LETTERS

    Dec 13, 2021 3 minutes

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    Bezos’s billions

     It was interesting reading your article regarding Jeff Bezos as it seemed to belittle his generosity.

    I don’t know much about him other than he founded Amazon, which has become amazingly popular.

    If we blame the rich for becoming rich then we have to blame the poor for becoming poor (which we don’t).

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