I would suspect much more, they are responsible for things like map-reduce, containers, kubernetes, golang, android, Gmail, and so much more. Things billions of people use directly or indirectly every day
Don't you mean a trillion dollars of luck as way too many people on this thread and adjacent bring up?
Considering this website, I find it hilarious how the most common talking point on this post is all "luck", like it's a conspiracy. You'd imagine "risk" would come up even once, but a few hours in, I am the only one bringing it up.
Not sure what you mean? Productivity here is in aggregate over the whole economy, whereas luck might come into it where you say "person X got rich off there idea - they were smart, worked hard, but they also needed some luck, such as being born next door to $influencial_person or whatever lucky thing they had.
I guess that no matter what, it's impossible to believe people made things and the magical forces of the universe made it so only a specific people gets to make these things.