• DessertStorms
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    2311 months ago

    …creating yet another billionaire, who, like all the others, didn’t earn that money. As is tradition.

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months ago

        There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

        A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

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          11 months ago

          He worked and apparently someone valued his work plus presence plus…😉 For billions. He won it.

          If you can get paid for your efforts, your product, and someone values it, then that’s what it’s worth.

    • @HollandJim
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      511 months ago

      Technically he’s also removing himself in the process, so nil sum gain.

      • DessertStorms
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        -111 months ago

        Way to deliberately miss the point… I said “creating” not “adding”, it isn’t about the number of billionaires, but how they become that.

        • @HollandJim
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          111 months ago

          And you missed my point - it’s migrating value, not creating new value. Anyway, being pedantic also misses the point - we should take up gardening. 👍