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Personally, I hold him in somewhat high regard. At the same time, he made billions while conspiring to deprive many HN users of their just rewards. This should not be forgotten, or forgiven.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/24/306592297...

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/y9eyxq/til_d...

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He was a criminal who literally conspired to steal billions.

It wasn’t just deprivation; it was stealing.

> just rewards

* liberalised labour market rewards

unless you think there is inherent moral justice in being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to write software

Yeah, I escaped communism as a child, so please excuse my potential bias. While I think that pure libertarians are just as silly as pure socialists, I do believe in the benefits of a well regulated market economy.

If the market economy indicates that a dev with particular skills can be paid even 10M per year, then heck yes. Good for them. If the companies who hire these devs could not pay that, then the market for them would not exist. They could, and conspired not to. This is why they settled the case.

Seems more moral than their employer conspiring to deprive them of that

true

okay britta - are there people starving in uganda too?

I guess if you harbour skills that exceed those rewards you could start on your own taking your own risks. There are some tradeoffs and simple marxism does not take into account all the variables

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