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Re:Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to i... by oulipo2 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:37AM (#46989372)
Because you fail to understand how economy and the world works. No, they don't "only do so by entering into transactions where all sides are better off", that's just a convenient fiction for people like you who never thought about the economic realities

The truth is they are abusing a system and rigging the laws, in order to keep extracting as much as they can. If it was really a "better for everyone", why don't you think all Starbuck's barista would be "overjoyed" of going to work every day? Think for yourself one minute instead of repeating talking points from FoxNews that you never even considered for one minute

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Re:Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to i... by mothballed on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:41AM (#46989422)
Oh I understand how it works. That's why I agreed many of them deserve to be at the Hague.

Remember, I said, ideal I proposed -- the ideal of the free market, where they can only become billionaires by entering voluntary transactions without externality to others. Under such ideal, if someone is a billionaire, it's because everyone is better off.

There have been varying shades of gray for how these play out in reality, the least shaded ones I'm generally grateful for and the most shaded ones are outright criminals that should have their fortune seized and put behind bars.

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