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Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by Y_Y on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:58AM (#19718519)
> "creators ... should be able to get rich"

Personally I don't think economic systems are necessarily better for the creation of rich people. I know it's a minority opinion, but I feel like it leads to lottery type winner-take-all situations where a few popular creators have absurd amounts of money, and the long tail don't have enough to get by. If you had commie programmers all paid a similar fair wage from the government you could generate plenty of good free software and reward effort rather than some mix of luck and skill.

Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by LifeLiverTransp on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:11AM (#19719050)
The sad thing is that often, talent is wasted by people getting rich. Beeing rich is basically like a gymn member ship. Its allbout lifting, gaining (monetary) weight and not really contributing to society anymore. My trillionair-ceps is at 2.8- where is yours now bro?

All those people started with some other skill, be it at organizing or detecting opportunitys, or even technical- and its now sits barren.

Re:Excerpts from Richard Stallman's talk in Mandya, India by sokoloff on Monday April 22, 2019 @09:28AM (#19718724)
My experience with people suggests that would tend to reward attendance almost as much as effort.