Gates and his lieutenants are guilty of extortion rather than theft. "Nice OEM y...

prodigal_erik on Jan 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things

Gates and his lieutenants are guilty of extortion rather than theft. "Nice OEM you got, a pity if something were to … happen to it." That wealth is an enormous market failure that the others were not sociopathic enough to cause.