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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This thought occasioned by an easy sideswipe on HN this morning against people who live in the "beach resort with the $5m+ homes", but I've heard this invoked against everyone from billionaires to developers making $100k, and it drives me *freaking batty.*
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Part of the work of the software community is taking people who have socioeconomic backgrounds where they are unlikely to have known e.g. millionaires growing up and having them build valuable things. It is hard to do this if they think all millionaires are thieves.
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While you may see some anti-millionaires takes, most of it really seems to be focused on billionaires not contributing enough to society
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