"On the whole though, they have released many orders of magnitude more useful things than Hedge Funds."
Well no shit - you're comparing an entity that creates "things" to one that doesn't!
"gobble up PhD holders and the cream of the crop and use them to make 0.1% of the population 5% wealthier"
Um, Google does this with data scientists. Maybe they do create a useful app, but make no mistake that their primary goal is to make the stock owners (mostly the top 1%) richer off the backs of their unsuspecting users.
Well no shit - you're comparing an entity that creates "things" to one that doesn't!
"gobble up PhD holders and the cream of the crop and use them to make 0.1% of the population 5% wealthier"
Um, Google does this with data scientists. Maybe they do create a useful app, but make no mistake that their primary goal is to make the stock owners (mostly the top 1%) richer off the backs of their unsuspecting users.