Comment by lokar
17 days ago
The problem with that argument is the failure to reasonably factor in time. If you take an expected value approach (quite reasonable in general) looking into the future you need to discount for time or everything goes to infinity.
As ben_w also hit on the time aspect, I ended up responded to him and you simultaneously here. [1]
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565321