A guillotine is placed outside Jeff Bezo's house.

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More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside Jeff Bezos' Washington, DC, mansion on Thursday and constructed a guillotine outside his front door to protest Amazon workers' wages.

The protest came the day after Bezos' net worth surpassed $200 billion, making him the richest person in history, according to Forbes. His wealth has grown by about $85 billion since January, boosted by Amazon's soaring revenue amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A video posted to Twitter by a Washington Examiner reporter shows former Amazon warehouse worker Christian Smalls, an outspoken Amazon critic, calling on the company to raise its minimum wage from $15 per hour to $30 per hour in light of Bezos' surging wealth. The protest was led by the Congress of Essential Workers, a group founded by Smalls.

"Give a good reason why we don't deserve a $30 minimum wage when this man makes $4,000 a second," Smalls said.

It's not clear whether the protesters' guillotine had a real blade or was functional. The Congress of Essential Workers did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

An Amazon spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
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Protesters set up a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos' mansion and demanded higher wages for Amazon workers after the CEO's net worth surpassed $200 billion

The protest came the day after Bezos' net worth exceeded $200 billion for the first time, making him one of the richest people in history.
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working in a warehouse is a completely unskilled job that any moron with a decent bit of muscle could do

it pays between 13$-15$ an hour, which is double the US minimum wage, which is imo very fair

its very strange that americans expect to have white-picket-fence type money when they're working a job that requires zero skills or intelligence, especially when theyre paid probably way more than what they deserve for it

(and i say this as a construction worker lol)
 
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Sleepy said:
working in a warehouse is a completely unskilled job that any moron with a decent bit of muscle could do

it pays between 13$-15$ an hour, which is double the US minimum wage, which is imo very fair

its very strange that americans expect to have white-picket-fence type money when they're working a job that requires zero skills or intelligence, especially when theyre paid probably way more than what they deserve for it

(and i say this as a construction worker lol)
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Good luck getting a framing job at 15/hr anywhere. Only construction that pays now is masonry, roofing, and finish carpentry.
 
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