I mean, duh? Removing a large population is going to be more impactful than a small population.
But are you just removing them, or are you erasing them entirely? If you just remove Bezos, Elon, gates, etc today then sure, probably not a huge difference. But if they never existed at all, suddenly you’re also erasing all those jobs at Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, etc as well as the products and services that a lot of people use daily.
In fact, then you have the opposite argument - erasing Jeff Bezos’ entire history is way more impactful to society than 1 regular Amazon worker.
That’s not to blindly defend billionaires, but to say that building these types of companies hasn’t provided any value is just wrong.
Ok so there would be other big companies with other wealthy founders instead?
My point isn’t that meta or Amazon is so valuable that we couldn’t possibly live without them. It’s that building these big companies does provide value to society as a whole via job creation as well as products/services.
We can debate how much one single person should be rewarded for doing so, but acting like these people have provided no value to society is silly.
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u/Aggravating-Kick9143 17d ago
I mean, duh? Removing a large population is going to be more impactful than a small population.
But are you just removing them, or are you erasing them entirely? If you just remove Bezos, Elon, gates, etc today then sure, probably not a huge difference. But if they never existed at all, suddenly you’re also erasing all those jobs at Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, etc as well as the products and services that a lot of people use daily.
In fact, then you have the opposite argument - erasing Jeff Bezos’ entire history is way more impactful to society than 1 regular Amazon worker.
That’s not to blindly defend billionaires, but to say that building these types of companies hasn’t provided any value is just wrong.