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How does he deserves every cent of 1.4 billion dollars? He didn't do $1.4 billion worth of labour. His drivers, carmakers, road builders, telecom providers, sma
by Fricken 9y ago
How does he deserves every cent of 1.4 billion dollars? He didn't do $1.4 billion worth of labour. His drivers, carmakers, road builders, telecom providers, smartphone makers and software engineers did $1.4 billion worth of labour. Kalanick found himself in a position where he could extract $1.4 billion worth of rent. He's just one fucking guy. It took a solid chunk of western civilization to make Uber possible. It was literally millions of years in the making.
If you wish to make an apple pie from search, you must first invent the universe.
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- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoWe can apply this logic to (almost?) any extremely wealthy person. Does Musk deserve his coin? What about Gates? The Koch brothers? Mostly other people have done the work for them.
- Fricken 9y agoI do apply that logic to any extremely wealthy person. I mean, I don't lose sleep at night worrying about the billionaires of the world, I just think it's ridiculous to suggest that they deserve it, or that they earned it somehow.