Comment by carlosjobim
4 hours ago
Why the hell would it be perverse to want to get rich from something you created?
Do you have some kind of right to other people's creative output now? This greed after what other people have seems to be completely boundless.
I don't think it is a crazy opinion to think the desire to be rich is morally troubling. It is a desire to consume more than your share of the world's resources.
And if you invent or create something which brings a lot of value to other people, then your share should be just as big as everybody else's?
30% of the food eaten on the planet by people today is grown thanks to a German scientist who invented a way to extract fertilizer from air. He is directly responsible for the ability of billions of people to live and survive. What would be his fair compensation?
I'm making no moral judgement here, what I'm saying is that this creates perverse incentives in software that produces enshitification and such. The incentives are perverse. Nobody is after anything you own, don't smuggle that assumption here please.