But if we look at the other big billionaires, like Bezos/Amazon, the same issues come up. How much value did amazon bring? Probably a lot compared to ‘no central web commerce site’. But if it weren’t for them, presumably something else comparable would have arisen.
None of these seem fatal to me (but then I’m not the one proposing to do the heavy inference).
Yeah, Gates is an exception.
But if we look at the other big billionaires, like Bezos/Amazon, the same issues come up. How much value did amazon bring? Probably a lot compared to ‘no central web commerce site’. But if it weren’t for them, presumably something else comparable would have arisen.