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by spottybanana 1764 days ago
He is already making society a better place by making products and services that people value. Charity isn't the only option for that.
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Just like the Sineloa Cartel! People would die to get their hands in their product.
He is only making society better if the value he is creating is larger than the value he is extracting.

You can build a regular home, get paid $5 million for it, the net act was probably negative for the system.

It's the same for companies turning profits: it's entirely possible to make profits in a system while actually shrinking the overall pie. This is common when certain activities are externalized (i.e. pollution).

Capitalism, broadly, does create a bigger pie, but it's a very uneven process and the true value creation doesn't always happen where the value is created. Value capture happens where the power is.