HI TAZOR -;)

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   On Dec 12, 2019, 4:52 PM, Razer < g2s@riseup.net> wrote:

     [1]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?

References

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