I am frustrated by discourses in the software community that suggest most concentrations of wealth are necessarily evidence of theft, partly because that is untrue and partly because it's extremely instrumentally suboptimal for builders of things to think that.
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"A millionaire is someone who has earned a million dollars over the course of their career." is a very unusual definition of what a millionaire is.
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To spare Patrick the effort: A senior engineer at G/F/A/A (and sometimes, but not always, M) earns ~300-350k/year in total compensation. This is a level that is achievable by default through standard career progression in ~5 years. Most of them will be actual millionaires.
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That's a very anglosphere/US-centric view. There are many more engineers all over the world than there are employees of those big names, and most of them won't become millionaires simply like that. You don't get > 100k salaries that easily in Europe, even.
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So I don't think "not exceptional" is really accurate. Not exceptional when working in the US in a specific industry sector, sure. But to generalize from that?
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Dude you're gaslighting. There's a huge difference between employees at big tech companies who are "millionaires" because of the value of their home and the millionaires people rail against
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When people speak of theft they are speaking about it in a) the marxian sense of exploited labor insofar as they are forced to sell their labor power to capitalists for less than the full value of the commodities they produce
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