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it was never about rising salaries, it was always about upper middle class urbanites showing fake concern towards the lower class by disparaging people who earn
by simianwords 1y ago
it was never about rising salaries, it was always about upper middle class urbanites showing fake concern towards the lower class by disparaging people who earn more than them.
one would think that a talented academic/researcher getting a 1B salary would impress the socialist people but it doesn't because it was never about that. it was about bringing rich people down and not much else.
- Der_Einzige 1y ago[flagged]
- ehnto 1y agoThat is proof of nothing, please be more grounded in your commentary.
- jdefr89 1y agoI know. For God sakes who will think of the poor billionaires for once! /saracasm
- simianwords 1y agoYou are doing it again.
- saagarjha 1y agoHow exactly does one guy making a billion dollars help the lower class?
- simianwords 1y agoIt reinforces meritocracy. What’s the alternative?
- saagarjha 1y agoWhy not have the best person get all the money?
- simianwords 1y agoIf he provides a good service he probably deserves it. Your next question is probably either “if one person has all the money, who has money remaining to spend” or “inequality is bad” (if you have given it more thought). To either question the answer is: current monetary system doesn’t allow this to happen and inequality is okay as long as the floor is increasing for everyone (to an extent). Zucc giving 1B to a relatively unknown researcher is the redistribution that people a should be in favour of. Just that it’s not redistribution to them. The bigger picture is that this investment is towards furthering good LLM research which will again benefit everyone. This transaction seems to be good in all angles.
- saagarjha 1y agoYes, but I don't think that one guy getting a billion dollars increases the floor.
- simianwords 1y agoit is part of the mechanism that increases the floor. the existence of Meta, Apple and Amazon led to billionaires but were crucial to increasing the floor.
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