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What makes the economy obviously not a fixed sized pie? Every dollar that Michael Dell's son has came out of somebody else's pocket.
by opencl 7y ago
What makes the economy obviously not a fixed sized pie? Every dollar that Michael Dell's son has came out of somebody else's pocket.
- Andrew_nenakhov 7y agoWell, no. His father has honestly earned his fortune by creating a big business that employs thousands. I suggest you stop preaching this Marxist crap. I was born in the Soviet Union and I tell you what: countries built with such "Rob the rich, give back to the poor" mindset are extremely bad to live in.
- iamasoftwaredev 7y agoAs opposed to the US where it's rob the poor give to the rich and it's so wonderful?
- dang 7y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and using HN for ideological battle, so we don't have to ban you again? If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post in the spirit of this site, we'd be grateful. It's not hard to use HN as intended if you want to.
- iamasoftwaredev 7y agoIt's pretty hard to use it as you intend. Worst moderator ever.
- tengbretson 7y agoWhen that money came out of those people's pockets they went home with a computer that they obviously valued more than the money itself. By their own judgement they walked out of a store carrying more wealth than they walked in with. Michael Dell made himself wealthy but he made his customers even more wealthy.
- iamasoftwaredev 7y agoOr they worked for 40 hours assembling computers for minimum wage while the company made billions and billions off that worker labour.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoWhen someone takes silicon and produces a computer chip, it's pretty clear to me that value has been created that didn't exist before. Within my memory, we've gone from Z80s to 4GHz multi-core. How can you look at that and see a fixed sized pie? It's obviously growing.