One might say the same of founders, but with respect to the org they are a part of: society. Founder? Nope, professional money extractor.
Anyone who's critical of, which is to say critically aware of, the underlying nature of capitalism will get what I'm saying.
Elon Musk (who proofread PG's post) is a master at extracting money from society and its government, while extracting labor from workers for minimal pay.[1] Zuck is a master at extracting money from society (by maximally playing to people's addictive tendencies and selling their attention to companies who want to extract more!). These types are driven by money and power, not by bettering society, though as masters of extraction they are masters of selling themselves as the latter.
Compare them to people who are driven not by money but by a desire to contribute: Albert Einstein, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds. If capitalism/markets were efficient, Albert Einstein would have been the richest person in the world, not Musk. The inventor of the web would be worth a lot more than the inventor of a web app that prey's upon people's addictive tendencies. Linus Torvalds' baby runs the internet (and android phones) yet his net worth is... Remember how Microsoft said open source was un-American, akin to communism? Now Microsoft is a master at extracting money from open source.
Capitalism's measure of net worth (money in the bank) does not correlate to actual net worth (positive impact on society).
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[1]: btw, how is the Founder Mode he instituted at what was formally known as Twitter working out?
I’m not sure the web an Linux can be judged with todays valuation in mind. Both succeeded through openness not capitalism. Einstein was from a whole different society.
Anyone who's critical of, which is to say critically aware of, the underlying nature of capitalism will get what I'm saying.
Elon Musk (who proofread PG's post) is a master at extracting money from society and its government, while extracting labor from workers for minimal pay.[1] Zuck is a master at extracting money from society (by maximally playing to people's addictive tendencies and selling their attention to companies who want to extract more!). These types are driven by money and power, not by bettering society, though as masters of extraction they are masters of selling themselves as the latter.
Compare them to people who are driven not by money but by a desire to contribute: Albert Einstein, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds. If capitalism/markets were efficient, Albert Einstein would have been the richest person in the world, not Musk. The inventor of the web would be worth a lot more than the inventor of a web app that prey's upon people's addictive tendencies. Linus Torvalds' baby runs the internet (and android phones) yet his net worth is... Remember how Microsoft said open source was un-American, akin to communism? Now Microsoft is a master at extracting money from open source.
Capitalism's measure of net worth (money in the bank) does not correlate to actual net worth (positive impact on society).
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[1]: btw, how is the Founder Mode he instituted at what was formally known as Twitter working out?