You don't even need such extreme cases. Companies that are insanely successful are generally not the ones that innovate the most and rarely are they founded by inventors. Not only is Tim Berners-Lee not rich but Netscape failed too. Meanwhile the largest success story of the web is Facebook, a company that uses it to strip mine personal data and manipulate our attention.
Our system rewards value extraction (rent, financial hacks) far more than value creation.
Our system rewards value extraction (rent, financial hacks) far more than value creation.