HI TAZOR -;) -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 12, 2019, 4:52 PM, Razer wrote:
> jam...@echeque.com wrote: >> On 2019-11-09 12:11, Razer wrote: >>> "Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something >>> other than fully human." >> >> Without billionaires, we don't get the kind of technology that needs a >> billion dollars. >> >> Some people, quite a lot of people, get rich by stealing it, for >> example Biden, Obama, and the Clintons. But most rich people get rich >> by creating wealth, or inherited it from parents that created wealth. >> > > You forgot the pirates of Silicon Valley in your list, and every single > startup that ripped off PARC and Netscape. There's no reason technology > should cost billions of dollars except for the desire of, not the > creators... They fled as their 'hobby-with-bennies' was being > hijacked... the 'investors' and their satraps that moved in to infest > the industry, to be billionaires. They don't care about computers. They > care about the money. Similarly not one single stupid motherfucking > engineer at Seagate I ever worked with gave one fuck about how a disc > drive worked. Didn't have a full picture of how it all happened. > > The lack of creativity in any sense but creatively making money showed > in 'double-letter' blueprints, and the unceremonious canning of any > 415-D spec they couldn't make. > > Rr > > Ps. Google could drop their entire internet operation tomorrow and their > execs would do just fine dealing all that SF Bay real estate they own. > Who knows? Maybe they will?