I'm not aware that the ycombinator sense of value is profit (or maybe income?). Not saying it isn't, I'm just unaware of that.
And when I said system, I meant the law forcing the companies to pay, not the troll using the law as a tool to create profit.
We could enter murky territory on whether other forced forms of income (taxes or fines, for example) provide value, they are forced but on the other hands they are supposedly used to common benefit, instead of private profit.
And when I said system, I meant the law forcing the companies to pay, not the troll using the law as a tool to create profit.
We could enter murky territory on whether other forced forms of income (taxes or fines, for example) provide value, they are forced but on the other hands they are supposedly used to common benefit, instead of private profit.