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by gambiting 409 days ago
>> The wealth he accrued was literally stolen from the labour of millions of people.

It's such a weird take I don't even know where to begin. Are you suggesting that all people who worked at Microsoft to make Windows and IE and all their other products had their labour "stolen" from them? If yes, can you expand on that?

What do you do for a living? Do you perform some kind of a job that you get compensated for? If yes, do you also feel like you're being stolen from?
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Nullabillity 409 days ago
> It's such a weird take I don't even know where to begin. Are you suggesting that all people who worked at Microsoft to make Windows and IE and all their other products had their labour "stolen" from them? If yes, can you expand on that?

We have a metric for the difference between what you charge for something and what you paid to provide it, it's called net income. Here's Microsoft's: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/net...

Elsewhere, we tend to call that embezzlement.

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gambiting 409 days ago
That's not embezzlement by any definition of the word.

>>What do you do for a living? Do you perform some kind of a job that you get compensated for? If yes, do you also feel like you're being stolen from?

Care to reply to this?

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Nullabillity 409 days ago
> That's not embezzlement by any definition of the word.

This is just mental gymnastics on the level of "it's not murder when the military does it!".

> Care to reply to this?

No, because it's not relevant to the discussion.

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gambiting 409 days ago
>>This is just mental gymnastics on the level of "it's not murder when the military does it!".

What definition of embezzlement includes both parties willingly engaging in exchange of labour for financial compensation? I think you are right, there is mental gymnastic happening, just not where you think it is.

>>No, because it's not relevant to the discussion.

How so?

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