jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
On 2019-11-09 12:11, Razer wrote:
"Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human."
Without billionaires, we don't get the kind of technology that needs a billion dollars.
Some people, quite a lot of people, get rich by stealing it, for example Biden, Obama, and the Clintons. But most rich people get rich by creating wealth, or inherited it from parents that created wealth.
You forgot the pirates of Silicon Valley in your list, and every single startup that ripped off PARC and Netscape. There's no reason technology should cost billions of dollars except for the desire of, not the creators... They fled as their 'hobby-with-bennies' was being hijacked... the 'investors' and their satraps that moved in to infest the industry, to be billionaires. They don't care about computers. They care about the money. Similarly not one single stupid motherfucking engineer at Seagate I ever worked with gave one fuck about how a disc drive worked. Didn't have a full picture of how it all happened. The lack of creativity in any sense but creatively making money showed in 'double-letter' blueprints, and the unceremonious canning of any 415-D spec they couldn't make. Rr Ps. Google could drop their entire internet operation tomorrow and their execs would do just fine dealing all that SF Bay real estate they own. Who knows? Maybe they will?