[SV650rules]

It is often hard to visualise a billion compared to a million, and it worries me when people in favour of big white elephants like HS2 talk about billions as if it is nothing, so it has gone from initial £30B to over £100B ( just for phase 1) and makes no economic sense, but they still want it.

Good luck to Jeff Bezos, many of the ideas that made people wealthy started in someones garage ( Amazon did ) and they took enormous financial risks ( like risking all their savings and house and then borrowed money ) and worked 20 hours a day - and for every one that worked out millions did not. Is it only in the UK that we hate rich successful people who worked hard to get it ? Maybe I don't like spoiled people who inherited a successful business from parent (s) and then sold up and squandered to proceeds, but self made people -great, and to be fair Amazon offer a great service to consumers, maybe not so great for their sellers but they are probably nowhere near the worst.