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Re:How People Get Rich Now by WalterBright on Monday April 12, 2021 @05:38PM (#26785532)
The resources are bounded. The value you can create from those resources is not bounded.

Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, etc., are enormously valued and none of it is based on bounded resources.

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Re:How People Get Rich Now by gip on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:01AM (#26788266)
I respectfully but also totally disagree. Value of money in particular is not intrinsic, it comes directly from the ability to redirect resource today (buy a home) and the future (be able to retire comfortably).

People made rich by Google will absolutely be able to redirect more resources to themselves in a world of bounded resources.

I think a lot of founders are idealistic about it and refuse to believe that at scale the start up mentality will increase inequalities. That's PG's point acutally, see the last sentence of his essay: it will. But he doesn't care. I do.

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