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It's about providing value to other people. If you write a software that is really used for something you provided a service. If that service is worth 100,000€/
by panzi 12y ago
It's about providing value to other people. If you write a software that is really used for something you provided a service. If that service is worth 100,000€/year then so be it. But he just gained money from the misjudgement of other people, not providing any service to anyone else. (Just like high frequency traders.)
- gambiting 12y agoYou could argue that he was funnelling money from richer economies(West of EU, US) to poorer economy(Bulgaria) - because he was making many many times the national average wage, everyone around him,every shop that he visited or purchased from benefited from his endeavour. What he did did not bring worthwhile services to other people,but the money he earned did.
- panzi 12y agoI think this is a bogus argument. Maybe it somewhat works for this particular case, I does not work in general for such activities. Also what's he gonna do with the money? Probably buy something on Amazon or Steam or go on vacation to the Caribbean or something like that.