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Maybe Stallman deserves to be on that line as well.
I do wonder where on the list people like Fabrice Bellard and other folks of the FOSS community would sit.
[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-...
A more serious ranking would probably be dominated by these groups:
* Agricultural and public-health innovators - affecting billions of people at low cost - Louis Pasteur, Norman Borlaug, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, followed by sanitation engineers, vaccine developers and epidemiologists, then the myriad of scientists/engineers responsible for clean water systems
* General-purpose infrastructure creators - electricity, semiconductors, refrigeration, telecommunications, etc... - Faraday and Maxwell
* Open standards and open-source creators - Linux, Git, FFmpeg, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML, Python, PostgreSQL, etc - they repeatedly eliminate costs for millions of organizations. Richard Hipp created SQLite that is embedded in millions of phones, browsers, apps, OSs, ... - Claude Shannon, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds
* Institutional and conceptual inventors - double-entry bookkeeping, randomized clinical trials, peer review, container standardization, cryptography, etc - reducing transaction costs and increasing trust across the world.
Linus Torvalds - $8.8T [0] Maybe Stallman deserves to be on that line as well. I do wonder where on the list people like Fabrice Bellard and other folks of the FOSS community would sit. [0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-...
> This list ranks ... the dollar value their companies generated for shareholders ...
If one defines "share holder" as "general population", then maybe my pithy remark holds.
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This is a list of people.
Yes I was seeing it as a list of people. Even if you ignore Linux and focus only on the amount of wealth Git has created... ...I still think he'd be at the top.
This is a list of people, not companies, so why should there necessarily be one?
Boy this really shows how little value the market provides
Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet. We should outlaw all markets, right?
Boy this really shows how little value the market provides
Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet. We should outlaw all markets, right?
What is it doing to feed my family in burundi?
> We should outlaw all markets, right?
Nobody said this, asshole. But how is the market going to correct for western retardation? Any move towards rational allocation of earth's resources will strip the west. Are you willing to argue that the west is worth sacrificing the east?
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Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet. We should outlaw all markets, right?
> Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet. What is it doing to feed my family in burundi? > We should outlaw all markets, r…
That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system.
It's surprising how many of your comments place you in the US, and not one in Burundi. I'm guessing based on your past comments you're not too consistent on your claims.
> Nobody said this, asshole
You claimed they provide little value against obvious reality. We're done.
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> Yeah, it only pays pensions, retirement accounts, provides liquidity for new industries, which then grow and provide jobs, and has been demonstrably one of the best inventions for pulling billions out of poverty and increasing standard of living generation after generation for hundreds of years over hundreds of countries on the planet. What is it doing to feed my family in burundi? > We should outlaw all markets, r…
> What is it doing to feed my family in burundi? That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system. It's surprising how many of your comments place you in the US, and not one in Burundi. I'm guessing based on your past comments you're not too consistent on your claims. > Nobody said this, asshole You claimed they provide little value aga…
I am in the US. Umuryango wanjye uri mu Burundi. My loyalty lies with my family, asshole.
> That it has not solved everyone's problems on the planet is no argument it against what it has provided more than any other system.
Presumably a collective society would be able to provide for people regardless of their ability to produce quarterly profits for western corporations
This is super wrong! Honestly they should probably take this down because of how wrong it is. Where is Norman Borlaug? Looking only at stocks is spitting in the face of every economist in the history of humanity. And they didn't even do that right. A company is not one person for starters! And what about if your company causes another company's stock to decrease in value, thereby destroying wealth? This is embarrassi…
the real reason this is not good is because it doesnt and cant easily capture what value flows to the customers and if the market is competitive all the value will eventually flow to the customer since pricing aboce marginal cost will get competed away and moat innovation is essentially making marginal cost lower