[coldtea]

>The problem isn't that you can't do something deserving of a billion dollars. Clearly it is possible.

What's "clearly possible" is to create a product. Or to create C.

It's not at all clear than anything of the sort "deserves" a billion dollars.

Except if we reduce it to the trivial "as a product it can be potentially worth billions of dollars in the market". But "is worth" doesn't equal "deserve".

One is an economic claim (which nobody disagrees with). The other is a ethical/moral claim, which many disagree about.

[ForHackernews]

Norman Borlaug saved ~1 billion lives and did not become a billionaire.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/05/07/dr-norman-borlaug-he-sa...

[coldtea]

But some guys destroying health globally with sugar water did.