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Alternatively, that's 400,000 working in businesses that actually contribute to the world, and likely plenty of new start-ups as well. The "in one day" thing w
by justinclift 4y ago
Alternatively, that's 400,000 working in businesses that actually contribute to the world, and likely plenty of new start-ups as well.
The "in one day" thing would likely suck for the unprepared ones though. :/
- thebytefairy 4y agoPeak HN, when we want to pretend that Google and Microsoft provide nothing useful to the world.
- justinclift 4y agoEach of those companies does indeed seem to be a net negative.
- saagarjha 4y agoThat’s not quite what the comment you were responding to said.
- justinclift 4y agoWell, they weren't responding in good faith to what I said so DILLIGAF. ;)
- dzamo_norton 4y agoIt would take excruciating gymnastics to justify a claim like this. And I'm not a fan of either entity.
- justinclift 4y agoWell, what are the positives they bring to the world?
- achenet 4y agogiving people tools like Word/Docs, Excel/Sheets, etc that they can use to express themselves and calculate things? Providing email for people? Giving people "it just works" (albeit not as well as Apple's stuff) operating systems (Windows/ChromeOS/Android) that they can use without having to deal with the complications of getting Linux working (although you could argue in recent days Ubuntu does this as well)? VS Code? Creating widely used programming languages (C#, TypeScript, Golang, Dart)? Paying people to work on open source projects? Google search, which, while far from perfect, does still enable people across the world to easily access information that is useful to them?
- justinclift 4y agok. And you feel those things benefit the world more than the negatives yeah?