But when lots of jobs are lost, consumer spending is lost, and it becomes harder to sustain a business (whether B2C or B2B) and afford to hire someone...

They're not Steve Jobs types. They're glorified bean counters.

They don't care, since the sucker, sorry, the customer, keeps giving them his money

Because increasingly many people wont even stoop to reading an article, but will put on some bs video - even for tutorials

For starters you can find it out from the inside...

"Baby which inherited the money" could just be baby born into wealth, or baby who will eventually inherit billions when it grows older and its parents die, or baby whose diseased mogul parent left a trust of billions for, or whatever....

What's "clearly possible" is to create a product. Or to create C.

It's not at all clear than anything of the sort "deserves" a billion dollars.

Except if we reduce it to the trivial "as a product it can be potentially worth billions of dollars in the market". But "is worth" doesn't equal "deserve".

One is an economic claim (which nobody disagrees with). The other is a ethical/moral claim, which many disagree about.

This is not a "motte-and-bailey", as the fact that you can't "deserve that billion dollars" is already part of the original "pair of arguments". In a true motte-and-bailey the second argument is implied, here both are given out straight.

Also, “all billionaires are cheaters” trivially doesn't include the baby which merely inherited the money as having actively cheated. It does however trivially include the parent who amassed the amount as a cheater. And thus, it makes inheriting the amount inheriting the fruits of cheating.

Pedantic much? It's not about him writing elegant code like someone would write elegant music. It's a comparison about the skill level achieved, Mozart-level vs Salieri-level (and in the sense of their Amadeus movie rivalry, not real world).

His code tackles very complex subjects, succesfully, with huge technical skill, and has been reliable and relied upon by millions...

You had something: production. Now you have nothing.

Oh, it kept the trolls and Nazis just fine (even brought some close to power).

What the investment killed was the regular curious / not-for-profit nerd.