Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy

Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by lovesgreen on Friday July 26, 2013 @10:46AM (#6108479)

Sounds like jealousy. If you can automate the way you get money, you have 23 hrs and 40 minutes a day to do something without any profit motive for true good. Startups, business, and making money don't have to be a religion.

Bill Gates will do more good with the money he made than he did by creating software.

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Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by peterjancelis on Friday July 26, 2013 @11:06AM (#6108599)

I don't agree with that. The value of bringing the personal computer to the masses is way higher than saving the lives of the bottom 1 billion.

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Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by pestaa on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:02PM (#6108895)

1 billion people would certainly disagree.

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Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by antitrust on Friday July 26, 2013 @12:37PM (#6109062)

I think what he's saying is that all seven billion of us benefited from the PC revolution, where the bottom one billion may benefit (or may not) from Gates' efforts.

It's an interesting ethical question. As with most questions, I don't know the answer to it.

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Re:Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy by peterjancelis on Friday July 26, 2013 @01:13PM (#6109241)

Exactly. Also indirect effects, like how much more productive are cancer researchers thanks to computers. Very hard to underestimate the importance of computers.

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