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Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv... by afarrell on Saturday May 16, 2015 @10:41PM (#9558471)
> The millionaire's ability to contribute to society has decreased by 10 units.

Are you taking into account the fact that 10 people now have a means to convey to entrepreneurs that some new product or service would solve a problem they have? Does doing this on a larger scale increase the ability of an entrepreneur to bootstrap a company through revenue rather than acquiring capital from now-poorer millionaire (whom we'll assume was an investor)?

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Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv... by ncallaway on Sunday May 17, 2015 @02:02PM (#9560989)
I generally agree with this reasoning. You'll notice each member of society had their ability to contribute go up by 2 units. So the overall gain was 20 units, and the overall loss was 10 units, for a net gain of 10 units of "ability to contribute".
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