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fijiaaronetoday at 7:51 PM4 repliesview on HN

Can you explain why we pay Sam Altman & Elon Musk? Or Jeff Bezos & Bill Gates? They’re just middlemen collecting money for other people’s labor.


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georgehotztoday at 7:58 PM

You are welcome to try to cut them out and start your own business. But I suspect you might find it a bit harder than your employer signing up for a SaaS AI agent. Actually wait, isn't that what this website is? Does it work?

gridspytoday at 8:01 PM

They are a bridge between those with money and those with skill. Plus they can aggregate information and act as a repository of knowledge and decision maker for their teams.

These are valuable skills, though perhaps nowhere near as valuable as they end up being in a free market.

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dborehamtoday at 8:01 PM

This is backwards. Those people got into the positions they have by having money to spend, not because someone wanted to pay them to do something. (Or they had a way to have control over spending someone else's money.)

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coliveiratoday at 8:44 PM

Scam Altman and Musk are paid to manipulate stock markets and enrich themselves and their friends.