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alexgiegyesterday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Billionaires, evidently. Why else would they deserve a million times what you make in your entire lifetime, weren't for the fact they're a million times more productive than you? In fact, if one were to die tomorrow that'd be like the loss to the world of a million of you, whereas were you to do the same, that'd be a loss of only one of you. This is also why you can be downsized without that impacting anything important, while downsizing a single billionaire would be a global tragedy.

Or at least, that's the logical consequence of that line of reasoning. If that's incorrect, where's the error in the reasoning?


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kbelderyesterday at 10:28 PM

A billionaire makes more like a thousand times what a normal working stiff makes in a lifetime, not a million times.