• TheBigBrother@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Exactly…

    Edit: I’m not saying they didn’t work but there is a limit of money someone can make working by themself, so at some point they start to delegate stuff to make more money, so yeah at the end start exploiting someone else to make more money.

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      4 months ago

      Notch is a billionaire. He made Minecraft as a solo project, it became what it was, then he sold it to Microsoft.

      Not saying that most billionaires didn’t get there via exploitation, but I don’t think it’s a strict prerequisite.

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        4 months ago

        Ok but how much more money have made Microsoft with Minecraft exploiting other people?, I’m not saying they isn’t a billionaire I’m just saying at some point people start delegating work or like in this case selling it to someone who can delegate the work to make even more money.

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          You’re moving the goalposts though, you realize that right?

          Your initial position was that you have to have exploited people to be worth a billion dollars (with an implicit “directly exploited,” since if you can’t make any money without indirectly exploiting people, which would make your point even more pedantic than I’m being.)

          Other people later exploiting others to profit off your product is irrelevant. Hell, it’d be irrelevant if you made your billion dollars and then started exploiting people yourself. You still would have, in fact, become a billionaire without exploiting people to do so.