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Is social media's 'Jeff Bezos - eat the rich' narrative misinformed fearmongering?

I'm not sure if this falls under Rule V (i hope it isnt) and is soapboxing. I'm not trying to instigate fights or anything I'm just curious if the economic logistics and actual theories hold up against the narrative.

I only took electives in Econ, I am an Accounting major so my deep understanding of Economics only goes as far as basic formulas on supply and demand curves + history of economics and the different political systems economics operates under.

Anyways, I've seen this narrative online where people constantly demand Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, to give his wealth back to the lower class and the people who need it, with tweets along the line of 'if Jeff Bezos' gave 1% of his wealth, he'd stop world hunger, do x, help y' etc.

As far as my knowledge goes, a majority of his wealth comes from stocks, and from my own years of formal education, the stock market doesnt take kindly to 'selling out a sh\*t ton (for a lack of better word) of stocks' from a multibillion dollar company since itd devalue the stocks right away and cause investors to turn back and itd just be bad for the lower class + economy in general.

So with that being said, is it correct to assume that the online posts about Jeff Bezos and how a portion of his wealth should be given back to the poor is just misinformed fearmongering?

~~I know Amazon has a history of bad employee related policies, but that's a topic for another day.~~
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The posts you see aren’t asking Bezos to sell off his stocks. They’re indicating he should be taxed more to fund social programs that would fix a lot of the income inequality in America. 

Bezos has no incentive to sell off his stocks, and you’re correctly positing it’d devalue the remaining stocks for him to sell off large amounts of them. But he has no need for all of the extra wealth begotten by those stocks and profits and gains on them. 

Calling it fearmongering is a misnomer at best. No one’s asking for Bezos to give his money away. Our tax policies should be doing that for him. That’s the argument being made.