Over half of the jobs held by HN posters, for starters.

Well, that's a non-answer. What types of jobs are those?

Are you suggesting you should qualify the jobs people create? The important thing is if someone wants to do it or not.

> Are you suggesting you should qualify the jobs people create?

Well, I started by saying that the only jobs were yacht captains and butlers (slight exaggeration) and was told that many of the jobs were things people on this message board had. So, yeah, that's what the topic is.

Google SWE, Amazon SWE, Meta SWE, Netflix SWE, Microsoft SWE, AirBnB SWE, Dropbox SWE, Hooli SWE,…

How are any of those jobs "created by rich people"?

Google SWE: billionaire Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Amazon SWE: "richest man in the world" Jeff Bezos

Meta SWE: billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg

Netflix SWE: billionaire Reed Hastings

Microsoft SWE: "richest man in the world" Bill Gates

Then we get into the "mere" hundreds of millions.

They created those jobs, and obviously they're very, very wealthy.

Wow, way to prove my point. Bezos and Gates cannot create a single job in Amazon or Microsoft (Gates isn't even on MS's board anymore). Brin and Page can probably create whatever job they want, but most engineers don't report up to them and cannot be fired by them. So only 1/3 of the people you posted about (Hastings; Zuckerberg) even are in a position to fire someone working at the company, and probably don't know who those people are. Meanwhile, if all six of them dropped dead tomorrow, the only people whose job would be in peril would be their personal assistants, helicopter pilots, etc. Those are the jobs "created" by the founders you listed.

You will still have silly pretentious people that use Windows and Amazon every day and will tell you that these guys are bad.

Start with your vote, kids: use something else, do not buy from them. It is what I would do, in fact, if I had that thinking.

Almost none of those jobs were created by the founders. Most were created by profit-maximizing companies that would be trying to maximize profits even if the founders lost all their stock tomorrow.

Very early hires, maybe you can claim were going into a job created by a founder.

literally every company that is funded by YC is funded by rich people hoping to get richer.