alt Hacker NewsIt always strikes me as interesting that this entire community was founded around startups and providing value to customers and making money in return, however it's now mostly dominated by those who think it's wrong to provide value and get money in return
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anonymous_user9 • today at 12:14 AM
Shareholders do not provide value, workers do. After he retired, Steve Ballmer did not provide $110B of value to Microsoft customers, but he received that wealth anyway.
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This community is diverse. It's just really in fashion today to be against capitalism and the rich. Marxism is the answer apparently.
The interesting thing to me isn't this community specifically, it's that all the prosperity that we (here anyways, for the most part) are enjoying, all the technological achievements, the lifting of billions of people from poverty ( https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief ), elimination of many diseases, increased lifespan, were mostly achieved under some version of capitalism.
It's not that there aren't problems (lots) and it's not that the widening gap between the very rich and everyone else isn't a concern but the simple narratives are also wrong.