We're about to find out what Amazon's return policy is on wives.

[samhexum]

Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie announce divorce after 25 years of marriage

[Kevin Slater]

Does this mean she gets one of the HQs?

 

Kevin Slater

[+ FreshFluff]

I give it a month before he’s out with the mistress. Bezos seemed nice, but unfortunately men are wired how they’re wired.

[BabyBoomer]

I give it a month before he’s out with the mistress.

 

That would be former TV anchor Lauren Sanchez.

 

~Boomer~

[+ José Soplanucas]

I give it a month before he’s out with the mistress. Bezos seemed nice, but unfortunately men are wired how they’re wired.

C'mon Flesh, you do not know. That is judgmental and misanthropic. You may be right, but they have been together for quite a while.

[+ Keith30309]

Mistresses are being identified and the list has been narrowed down to 12 candidates. A team of Amazon executives is visiting each potential mistress and an extensive questionnaire has been circulated.

 

A final decision on the mistress is expected in early-2020.

[+ FreshFluff]

C'mon Flesh, you do not know. That is judgmental and misanthropic. You may be right, but they have been together for quite a while.

 

Could be, but it's true as @BabyBoomer mentioned. Bezos and his wife have been together for a long time, but that's usually how it goes. To his credit, he chose a woman his own age instead of a 20something.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6575213/Amazon-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-reportedly-seeing-married-former-TV-anchor-Lauren-Sanchez.html

[+ José Soplanucas]

Could be, but it's true as @BabyBoomer mentioned. Bezos and his wife have been together for a long time, but that's usually how it goes. To his credit, he chose a woman his own age instead of a 20something.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6575213/Amazon-CEO-Jeff-Bezos-reportedly-seeing-married-former-TV-anchor-Lauren-Sanchez.html

 

I did not to mean he does not have a mistress. After so many years in a LTR I would not be surprised if any partner, man or woman, has extra marital relationships.

I was addressing your bitter comment about "all men are wired".

[TruthBTold]

Damn, I got mine on Ebay.

[+ FreshFluff]

I did not to mean he does not have a mistress. After so many years in a LTR I would not be surprised if any partner, man or woman, has extra marital relationships.

I was addressing your bitter comment about "all men are wired".

 

Latbear, I definitely didn’t mean to insult men. My point is that when men feel wealthy, they are more likely to cheat. Studies consistently show that. Women cheat too, but less often and only with a higher status man than the one they have. That’s what happened with Bezos’s gf, whose husband is a Hollywood agent. For the most part, women seek status and protection for themselves and their kids. Men, on the other hand, seek variety. That’s why men are more often found at forums on escorts and picking up people for sex while women post on relationship forums. Of course, these are generalities, and as always, there are exceptions on both sides.

[BSR]

At my old tennis club, there was a group of women who played during the day while the kids were at school. I called them the "wealthy housewives set" because it was a rather posh club, and I noticed what cars they drove. BTW, I only wished I were a wealthy housewife; alas, I was a semi-poor grunt who worked nights.

 

Anyway, I had a discussion recently with a friend who doesn't think Mrs. Bezos should get anything but whatever Jeff Bezos gave her during the marriage because if feminists believe in true equality, then husbands shouldn't fork over half the assets (which he alone earned) or alimony. I brought up the wealthy housewives set and that none of them would have agreed to give up her own career if her 50-something husband could just skip off with a half-his-age mistress at any given moment with financial impunity.

 

On one hand, it does seem a bit excessive for MacKenzie Bezos to get $75 billion out of the divorce. On the other hand, it seems outrageous that any wealthy man experiencing a mid-life crisis can leave his wife with nothing, after she gave up her own career, supported his career, took care of the home front, and raised his children. While it's far from a black & white issue, if I had to favor one position over another, I'd say she deserves half of everything.

[+ Travis69]

Women are smarter then men so she is the one who probably gave him all the great ideas to create the fortune. Give her 90%.

[+ tassojunior]

There are two exceptionally giddy divorce lawyers today.

Edited January 11, 2019 by tassojunior

[+ FreshFluff]

Women are smarter then men so she is the one who probably gave him all the great ideas to create the fortune. Give her 90%.

 

Her sent her a dick pic, which the Enquirer say it has. Brilliant idea.

[Bearofdistinction]

I give it a month before he’s out with the mistress. Bezos seemed nice, but unfortunately men are wired how they’re wired.

 

Men are Pigs!!! Thank God!

[Bucky]

With his wealth and power, did he snuff out all the salacious pics supposedly sent, or are they still out there?

[samhexum]

OPINION

 

MacKenzie Scott’s donations have shamed the boys of tech — Bezos above all

 

MacKenzie Scott has done it again.

 

Having already donated $1.7 billion to charity by this past July — and announcing that she’s no longer using the last name of her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos — she declared that she has donated another $4.2 billion to 384 organizations in the last four months.

 

While all the tech bros fight over colonizing space and California tax codes, banding together for the only thing they really care about — fending off anti-trust legislators — Scott makes them all look like stingy, greedy incels without a shred of compassion for those ruined by COVID-19.

 

“This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggling,” Scott wrote in a Medium post on Dec. 15. “Economic losses and health outcomes alike have been worse for women, for people of color, and for people living in poverty. Meanwhile, it has substantially increased the wealth of billionaires.”

 

Billionaires who, with the exception of Bill Gates and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, have been relatively mum on this pandemic. Remember Elon Musk loudly inserting himself into the Thai cave rescue crisis, acting like a real-life Tony Stark? Why so quiet now?

 

And where’s Mark Zuckerberg? He’s signaled political ambitions. Know what helps with that? Acts of generosity, compassion and humanity.

 

That said, no one on the planet has profited more off this pandemic than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (who not that long ago publicly humiliated Scott by carrying on an extramarital affair with his now-fiancée). Amazon has been the biggest beneficiary of the COVID-19 crisis so far and likely will be for some time to come, as brick-and-mortar retail crumbles and even older, tech-averse Americans turn to online shopping.

A recent USA Today report ranked Bezos No. 1 among 30 billionaires made even more disgustingly wealthy by a virus that has claimed 1.65 million lives worldwide. By April 2020, just one month in, more Americans were unemployed — 14.7 percent — than had ever been recorded, according to a congressional report.

 

Yet Bezos has remained awfully quiet on the economic devastation suffered by so many Americans. A survey conducted by The Washington Post (also owned by Bezos) in June reported that he, “the wealthiest man in the world with a fortune of $143 billion,” gave just $125 million to charity thus far in 2020. (An Amazon spokesperson told The Post that Bezos has given a total of $900 million to charity in the past year, including funds to fight climate change.)

 

Either way, that’s less than one percent — the equivalent of rooting around in his sofa for loose change.

 

Meanwhile, Bezos purchased David Geffen’s Beverly Hills estate for $165 million in February. The previous summer, he bought several New York apartments for $80 million, and in April it was reported that he bought yet another New York apartment for $16 million. During this pandemic, Bezos’ wealth spiked by $13 billion in just a single day in July. Amazon shares traded at $1,700 pre-lockdown. Now they’re at more than $3,000.

 

All this while employees at Amazon fulfillment centers protested and begged for proper PPE and workplace safety conditions. Some, like New York City protester Christian Smalls, were fired. Amazon exec Tim Bray resigned in May, calling such firings “chickenshit” and writing in a blog post that “remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised.”

 

As The Guardian noted, Bezos is now worth more than Exxon Mobil, McDonald’s or Nike.

 

Yet his ex-wife, who got $38 billion in the divorce, dwarfs him in charitable giving.

 

“She’s responding with urgency to the current moment,” Chuck Collins, director of the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, told The New York Times. “You think of all these tech fortunes, they’re the great disrupters, but she’s disrupting the norms around billionaire philanthropy by moving quickly.”

 

In her Medium post, Scott wrote of average Americans giving what they could — not just financially, but of themselves — to help others in need.

 

“Our hopes are fed by others,” Scott wrote, encouraging those of us lucky enough to have jobs and homes and health to give what we can. “The hope you feed with your gift,” she concludes, “is likely to feed your own.”

 

With her giving, Scott hasn’t just proved her beautiful holiday spirit. She’s proved what Scrooges her billionaire brethren — and especially her ex-husband — truly are.

[+ WilliamM]

Latbear, I definitely didn’t mean to insult men. My point is that when men feel wealthy, they are more likely to cheat. Studies consistently show that. Women cheat too, but less often and only with a higher status man than the one they have. That’s what happened with Bezos’s gf, whose husband is a Hollywood agent. For the most part, women seek status and protection for themselves and their kids. Men, on the other hand, seek variety. That’s why men are more often found at forums on escorts and picking up people for sex while women post on relationship forums. Of course, these are generalities, and as always, there are exceptions on both sides.

 

We exchanged emails many Summers ago. I believe you were living in the East Coast that Summer. You like people, and men qualify as people! So there!

[+ sniper]

I don't think looking at percent of net worth is the relevant measure, but percent of income. Very few people at any income level donate a high fraction of their net worth in a single year. Also for executives whose worth is tied up in company stock, giving away their wealth is giving away control of their business.