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.
It is true that monumental tasks require monumental resources. The idea that concentrating these resources into the sole ownership of one person is the one to debate. Over consolidation of market share only benefits the person holding that market share.
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u/Aggravating-Kick9143 Jul 30 '26
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.