What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat - The Atlantic

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For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 12:31 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood , Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano’s preacher to death with a bowling pin. Dano’s Eli Sunday, a nemesis of Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview during his seminal, wealth-building years, has come to sell Plainview the oil-rich land that he once coveted. But Plainview doesn’t need the land anymore, because—as he explains in one of the most famous monologues i

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