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Why is 10^9 a magic threshold?

What's your actual "you've provided too much value to willing participants" amount? If she negotiated royalties of 20% she would have been a bad person? If she put her money in an index fund and it doubled every 10 years, she'd become immoral later?




Yeah, fair 'nuff, you've made a convincing argument. Some people can be billionaires without causing too much suffering on the rest of the world.




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