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by olefoo 2023 days ago
Well, of course billionaires don't directly exploit people. They just build systems and take advantage of large scale features of the social environment that exploit people.

It's a completely different morally.

I mean, you can't hold airbnb responsible for either the housing crunch or any part of the homelessness crisis. They just created a system that allows landlords to cash in on high-return short term rentals. The negative externalities created by the mass adoption of their platform cannot be landed on their moral accounting. It's totally obvious.