Because it is a salary. You are framing salary as one specific thing, a paycheck from Amazon. What I'm trying to get through your thick ass head is that he doesn't take a traditional salary like that, because he'd rather generate different income housed in tax shelters so he can loophole himself into little taxes.
And because you worship these people, you think you're scoring an internet gotcha by harping on this when all you've done is highlight your own absurdity and ignorance.
Call it salary, call it income, call it a fucking blueberry...it doesn't matter, its money he made in a year that he's not paying taxes on because of stupid fucking loopholes that let your Jesus use more government services and get a higher benefit from while paying a smaller percentage...than YOU! Yes you. You pay a higher percentage of your yearly income than Bezos pays on his yearly income.
And again for the hundredth time, being wealthy enough to use stocks/investments to limit your tax burden from an actual literal yearly salary is the fucking loophole. How else can I say that you? Seriously, do I need to write it in fucking crayon with backwards "r"s?
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There's no problem with the article. They didn't;t confuse or conflate anything.
They cannot flat out say Bezos got all that money as a literal salary, because Drax-ish beings like @
Machismo can literally only comprehend things....literally.
There's another link in the article where they clearly explain their reasoning for counting what they counted.