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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.

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.