| ▲ | heresie-dabord 2 hours ago |
| > The rich got rich exactly by contributing to society and humanity. Pardon me, but this seems to be a local optima trap too. |
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| ▲ | simianwords 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| The difference is, I know the extent to which this is true and where it fails. I don't think you even acknowledge this is largely true. |
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| ▲ | rhines 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is it true? Even on a small scale, when I taught kids how to swim for $20k/year I believe I did more for society than when I built systems to help a large streaming service deliver ads for $100k/year. There are certainly exceptions, but in general money comes from extracting value from others, while jobs that provide to society are not extractive and this pay less. | | |
| ▲ | simianwords an hour ago | parent [-] | | This is fundamentally wrong. If Elon created Tesla and made ~$100B of wealth from it, he also made all the other shareholders richer by way more. Not only that - the world now has Teslas it otherwise wouldn't. Everyone wins and there is no extraction of values (old Marxist jargon that needs to go away). |
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