From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Nov 16 2002 - 05:24:39 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> You know, it just *may* be possible that in a perfect world Bill Gates
> would not be worth $50 billion - or rather that the ratio of his worth
> to yours would not be on the order of 1,000,000:1 or whatever it is.
> And it could also be that saying "Bill Gates doesn't *deserve* it" is
> a very dangerous thing to say, because if you say that, you may be
> tempted to take it away from him, or try to, and in so doing,
> establish a system whose overall effect is much, much worse than what
> you replaced.
>
I generally agree except that his wealth is vast enough that it is easy
to serious perturb the use of software anc computers throughout the
world for many years to come. That I find tremendously unfortunate
considering the rapaciousness he has acted with thus far.
- samantha
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