It is easy to see that the redistribution of wealth throughout all of society is a noble goal. This becomes clear as we approach a point in our evolution where

It is easy to see that the redistribution of wealth throughout all of society is a noble goal. This becomes clear as we approach a point in our evolution where we start to automate the collection and processing of resources. We're all part of this giant machine of modernity. If everyone can feel the benefits of it, and I mean everyone on the whole planet, then we can start to really feel good about what we're building and how we're gonna compromise all of our own individual pursuits and dreams with all of those people around us. The truth of the matter is that we've all been in this big global machine the whole time. Cultural interchange on a global scale is nothing new, only the speed at which it happens is changing. Pretending that the resources gathered through the skills of just one man somehow doesn't affect the rest of humanity is very short sighted, especially in our modern world. The ability to extract and accumulate resources is amplified loudly by the existing machinery. Facebook is just an aberrate growth on the top of a very large system that is fueled by the blood, sweat and tears of billions of people living now and extending back in time to the dawn of recorded history. This has been known to the modern world for some time. We've built systems that we call social democracy, liberalism, communism and fascism with a lot of these tenants in mind. And we argue about the merits of each, and the merits of other systems, and we pontificate about the expected outcomes of imaginary systems or invent new versions of incomplete readings of the past, and we get lost in an endless maze of rhetoric. There is danger merely in the act of having faith in manmade systems like politics, economics and technotronics. There isn't a point to nor a way to quantify and classify everything under the sun. We can't ever know how these things will work out. We need to make sure that our faith is actually in the people around us. We need to have faith that the vast majority of people have a good heart and able hands, and they also have just as big of an itch to create, discover, and explore the world. We need to carry that understanding with us everyday and in all walks of our lives and stop pretending like "playing the game" is in any way nobel or worthy of anything other than meaningless excess. And yeah, Silicon Valley and the cracker jack crew of Hacker News users, I'm talking right to you.