On: Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to build self-driving cars

[dylanjermiah]

Who is worse off because Bill Gates has earned tens of billions of dollars? Who is worse of because Steve Jobs had earned billions of dollars?

I'd argue we are all dramatically better of due to Microsoft and Apple.

[cafebeen → dylanjermiah]

No doubt they've done great things, but the wealth gap still exists and has potential to cause social/economic/political problems.

[dylanjermiah → cafebeen]

Specifically what social, economic and political problems? And very specifically why are these problems bad? What do you think will happen?

[cafebeen → dylanjermiah]

Some reading on the topic if you're curious (or dubious):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Effects