What about a guy who made a popular Java game in his spare time and sold it to Microsoft for 2 billion? What in that process required forgoing empathy and ethics?

That's just one example. There are plenty of rich people who got there fairly and created a lot of value along the way.

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Supernaut 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I take it you're referring to the same guy who, after taking his money, wrote that feminism is a "social disease" and that privilege is a "made up metric"? That guy?

	▲	bluecalm 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. Things you mentioned are unrelated to how he made his money.

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ryoshoe 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The "pretty much" disclaimer in their comment covers this case. But it doesn't dispute their idea that most billionaires reached that level of wealth by exploiting others

	▲	bluecalm 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		It depends how you define "exploit". How is Jensen Huang "exploiting" others? He started a GPU company, hires a lot of people, pays some of them very well, pays others not that well. I don't think you can say he is "exploiting" them though. He made lives of hundreds of thousands of people much better. If anything I think he should be celebrated and I am very happy he is a billionaire. How is Roger Federer exploiting others? He played a competitive game, won a lot of tournaments, accepted a lot of sponsorship money. He is now a billionaire. Did he need to give up ethics and morals to get there? What kind of blame is that really?