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Not especially. I prefer one more Zuck or Gates or Jobs to a million more middle-class whoevers.
by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Not especially. I prefer one more Zuck or Gates or Jobs to a million more middle-class whoevers.
- nostrademons 15y agoInteresting. I think that in terms of creating a just society (which I do consider to be "good"), I'd much rather have a million more middle-class whoevers. There's no real way to resolve disagreements on questions of "oughts", though, so I think we just have to agree to disagree.
- jleyank 15y agoFail. The whoevers pay most of the taxes in the US and are the ones who purchase your products. One "killer elite" just isn't making that much $$ for Facebook, Google, ...
- ams6110 15y agoActually the well-off pay most of the taxes. And Zuck would not have what he has without the company he built, and I'd reckon that pretty much every employee at Facebook is at least earning what would be considered comfortable middle-class money.
- jleyank 15y agoMiddle-class < well-off <<< Gates et al. I can concede the "who pays the taxes" point to a good argument. I think we're in general agreement that the unwashed or partially-washed masses purchase a whole lot more stuff from high-tech companies that the aforementioned luminaries. Unless there's way more HN companies making carbon-fiber racing yachts that I'm aware of.