Wow. You're drowning in a delusional ocean of hate and jealousy. Perhaps you need to understand that there are indeed people who are smarter, have knowledge you don't, work harder, take greater risks, and, yes, sometimes are just plain luckier than you. And there are also some who figure out how to game the system, or lobby to get tax laws that benefit them in place (carried interest and hedge fund managers immediately come to mind), but that doesn't mean that everyone who gets to be billionaire did it without merit or nefariously. It is not what I've observed. I don't care what the power-hungry democratic socialists in this country say, you don't always "take a billion", you can indeed earn it. I don't agree with everything Bezos, to use your example, has done. But beyond a shadow of a doubt he deserves a lot of the wealth he has. There wouldn't be a Amazon and it wouldn't as successful without him. End of story. The same is true many others. I often don't agree with Elon Musk, but I've got to hand it to him, there wouldn't be a Tesla car company or a SpaceX without him. Although I did agree with him recently when he called Robert Reich "a modern day moron".
On the other hand, there a some billionaires who I think didn't earn it, like the Walton family after Sam Walton died. They are a creation of our inheritance and tax laws, and as a group they get to be the richest family in the world. Bezos and Amazon (and many newer companies which grew from start-ups) are getting huge advantages from US tax laws like loss carry-forward, but so do many individuals, some of whom I'm sure post on this forum. If it were up to me I would change the tax laws, but it isn't. It's up to Congress to pass them and the President to sign them, and every President and Congress, Democratic or Republican, has put these laws in place or left them in place. You can take advantage of them too, should you start a company. And it's not just the big guys that do it. Small businesses do it too.
I know what's going on in sports, both college and professional, and I just don't care enough to worry about it. I don't go to sports events, I don't watch sports, I don't pay for ESPN or whatever... I just plain don't care. Yeah, I get rather annoyed when the city I live in builds a new stadium for like $1B and the events disrupt my life (I lived in Santa Clara when the new stadium was being built there and the Super Bowl was played there), but that's small compared to other distortions in our tax systems so everyone but wage earners can benefit. These inequities don't reduce the contributions to our national success that a lot of billionaires have made. I know I'd be much poorer without them.
I've met a lot of very wealthy people in my time. There's no getting around it, most of them were smarter than me, had ideas and knowledge I didn't, took risks I didn't, and no amount of unfair advantages can explain away why they are more successful than I was. Sometimes it isn't like that, but often enough it is. I think your stories of mostly ill-gotten gains are delusional.
