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We don't need startups. The only reason why we "need" startups is because you can't get anything done in this society unless the property owners and capital hol

We don't need startups. The only reason why we "need" startups is because you can't get anything done in this society unless the property owners and capital holders get the majority of the profit. I bet a lot of people prefer the version of history where great men do all the great work and drag the rest of humanity along with them: peerless, fearless leaders who need to be rewarded with wealth and power because otherwise they would not contribute their might and talent to the betterment of the world and we would all be living in shit-thatched straw huts because only the great men who own property can save us from our inferior nature.

gethoht 11y ago
This is truly embodied in the John Galt mythos.
minimuffins 11y ago
> You can't end economic inequality without preventing people from getting rich, and you can't do that without preventing them from starting startups. And "startups are good" is supposed to be so axiomatic that the discussion ends there. Here's what you're supposed to think: 1. Startups are good (duh) 2. Startups cause inequality 3. Inequality is actually good. QED! There is this idea out there, and it's especially dominant in SV, that the appropriate expression of creativity is in the scramble to get rich. Like if we didn't incentivize the creation of new ideas with massive wealth no one would ever do it. And it's very much related to that Randian superman narrative you have there.