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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by thundergolfer on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:58PM (#27913679)
The world's greatest 20th century innovators, such as Einstein and Shannon, did not do their work to get rich. It's more than a little crazy that "innovation" has become so closely associated with ECommerce entrepreneurship, and is assumed to be driven by greed.
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by mym1990 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @10:30AM (#27972877)
My outlook has almost nothing to do with being paid, but rather having the proper rewards for taking a proper risk. For someone like Musk, the reward from PayPal enables him to pursue even greater innovation, which he is doing marvelously. I would bet a large sum that he would not be where he is now if his gains were capped at 100x poverty level.
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