<em>Washington Post</em> Layoffs Blamed on Losses That Amount to Rounding Error for Bezos
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If Bezos paid out $100 million to the paper today, his net worth would go from $248.7 billion to $248.6 billion.

The Washington Post, one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., announced on Wednesday that it is laying off a third of all staff — a move that owner Jeff Bezos could prevent personally without his net worth changing in any meaningful way. As of Wednesday, Bezos’s net worth was listed as just under $249 billion by Forbes. Just last year, he spent an estimated $50 million on his wedding.

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