Worth noting that Reddit doesn't have terribly many employees, so it can't represent too much waste even if all its employees were Nobelists. And given that Swartz was able to do so much after leaving Reddit, can we say that Reddit was a waste - even if we ignore the benefits to its actual users and all the enabled communities?

OK, I see your point. I had a hard time quickly coming up with important works of software engineering.

I guess I kind of stepped over my own argument. The post was about google ads, why is that important? Then I mention reddit.