Reflexões… sobre o Mundo Digital

Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his "intellectual property".

He didn't created a computer revolution, he destroyed one.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) November 8, 2019

Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course – by destroying an free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn't set up a server to socialize with anyone.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) November 8, 2019

To say these people added value to the world and therefore "deserve" their billions is absurd. They subtracted value, an enormous amount of value, and stymied progress to seize control and extract wealth. Computers and the internet would be more advance if they had never existed.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) November 8, 2019

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Existential Comics

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