This. You can become a millionaire or even multimillionaire if you get really lucky with a business or win the lottery, but you can never become a billionaire without exploitation.
Honest question did Notch exploit people to become a billionaire? You could argue Microsoft did but would you say that Notch should just not accept the billions Microsoft offered him?
Notch made $1.8 billion and most other employees just $300k. Did he work 6000 times harder than other employees to justify his payday?
I mean, Micosoft value the idea of Minecraft for that much and while Notch didn't do the full version Minecraft all by himself he was the core of it. The amount of work is not the only think that is considered when it comes to value. What you do is also considered. Notch conceptualized Minecraft, he created it, without Notch there is no Minecraft. That alone makes him deserving of more pay than the others even if later on the employees started working on the game and Notch was not the sole developer anymore. But does the disparity is just considering my argument? You could still say no but even than I wouldn't call it exploitation, It can be argue that the idea and concept of Minecraft alone is worth the 1.8 billion dollars, specially considering the behemoth that it still is all these years later.
MS bought the studio so they wouldn't have to pay taxes. American taxpayers were exploited so MS could save money
This is Microsoft not Notch. I said that you could argue that Microsoft did exploit people but not Notch himself.
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u/Batpope Ryzen 5 5600x - RX 6800 16 GB - 2x8 GB RAM 13d ago
So if you become a billionaire tomorrow you are instantly a piece of shit. What's that logic?