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> many of the SF folks I know seem to be ashamed to work for a big company and not "doing their own thing". I really wish that this weren't so prevalent. Sacri
by hkmurakami 11y ago
> many of the SF folks I know seem to be ashamed to work for a big company and not "doing their own thing".
I really wish that this weren't so prevalent. Sacrificing your ambitions to provide stability and safety for your family is a noble thing, and I wish the public rhetoric appreciated this more.
- cloudjacker 11y agothe public rhetoric is that you should go to SF if you want to take risks like that
- rdl 11y agoIt's not necessarily good for society on the extreme either way. It's beneficial to the world to encourage people to take some level of risk. It's bad to encourage people to take stupid risks, but it's also a bad outcome if the next Elon Musk decides to spend his life working as a line engineer somewhere forever for safety. This is one of the biggest problems with inequality/etc. -- a person from a poor background gets a $20/hr job and would be unable to do anything which puts that at risk, even if it has a huge positive expected value. A rich person could comfortably optimize for EV. (Incidentally decoupling survival from wages is one of the big benefits of basic income; it's possible this would lead to a more beneficial deployment of human capital and thus greater wealth overall.)
- hueving 11y agoGo elsewhere, the majority of the US thinks working for a big company with a stable future is the dream. The thing that makes silicon valley special is the encouragement to take risks and 'disrupt' the status quo.