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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by archagon on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:45AM (#13993829)
In this alternate universe, PayPal could have morphed into PayPalphabet and spawned other companies corresponding to Musk's interests. I think that would still work fine as long as the money stayed within the company and out of executives' hands.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by 824ueirwfjd on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:34PM (#13997776)
nope, it wouldn't ever happen. without capitalism -- or greed, incentive, however you want to put it -- none of those companies would exist.
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Re:Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person by archagon on Thursday March 30, 2017 @02:51PM (#13997909)
Yes, I think it absolutely would happen. Incentive would still be there. People won't sit around idle just because they can't make a million times more money than their peers.
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