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>The problem isn't that you can't do something deserving of a billion dollars. Clearly it is possible. What's "clearly possible" is to create a product. Or to
by coldtea 4mo ago
>The problem isn't that you can't do something deserving of a billion dollars. Clearly it is possible.
What's "clearly possible" is to create a product. Or to create C.
It's not at all clear than anything of the sort "deserves" a billion dollars.
Except if we reduce it to the trivial "as a product it can be potentially worth billions of dollars in the market". But "is worth" doesn't equal "deserve".
One is an economic claim (which nobody disagrees with). The other is a ethical/moral claim, which many disagree about.
- ForHackernews 4mo agoNorman Borlaug saved ~1 billion lives and did not become a billionaire. https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/05/07/dr-norman-borlaug-he-saved-billion-lives-14773 https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/05/07/dr-norman-borlaug-he-sa...
- coldtea 4mo agoBut some guys destroying health globally with sugar water did.