I understand your point about "it's just a payments platform", etc. Believe me that I do. And I value this person's life profoundly. But you are failing to ful

I understand your point about "it's just a payments platform", etc. Believe me that I do. And I value this person's life profoundly. But you are failing to fully appreciate the leverage of the work: when Stripe works just a little bit better, many millions of seconds/dollars are saved. Chargebacks and fraud is avoided, checkouts succeed, people don't need to retype or retry charges, merchants get paid, etc. I'm not making an argument that Stripe is especially benevolent. The point is that there are far-rippling consequences of "a little more work" when you're at a company with such deep network effects spread so far across the global economy. "Making a few people rich" trivializes how exactly how and why people become rich — namely, by building systems that affect many millions or billions of people using the labor of mere thousands.