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Taking advantage of an opportunity while somewhere someone doesn't have as many opportunities as yesterday does not necessarily translate to "you took their opp
by BWStearns 13y ago
Taking advantage of an opportunity while somewhere someone doesn't have as many opportunities as yesterday does not necessarily translate to "you took their opportunity".
In what sense is getting yours "at the expense of others" unless you have achieved it by deceit, fraud, or force? If you're referring to general technologically driven unemployment, then yes in a very broad sense programmers do profit at the expense of others. Should companies ease off increasing market share if a competitor is on the verge of collapse in order to save the jobs of those at whom's expense they were profiting?
- fleitz 13y agoThey'd be doing everyone in the other company a favor by killing it, the other company is inefficient and the population as a whole suffers for it wasting the resources it does instead of those resources being freed up to do something more productive.
- BWStearns 13y agoWell yes. I agree with you. That last question was supposed to come across as exasperated and irritated, not as an endorsement of preserving failing companies out of short sighted compassion. There are serious questions that need to be solved regarding the likelihood that double-digit percentages of the US workforce will be economically unviable, but those are separate from issues of even aggregate microeconomic competitive questions.