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> the death of Net Neutrality would be the best competitive moat imaginable for Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. While all their CEOs will make faint noises in fa
by mehaveaccount 10y ago
> the death of Net Neutrality would be the best competitive moat imaginable for Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.
While all their CEOs will make faint noises in favor of Net Neutrality, SV outspends Wall Street 2:1 on lobbying[1], the goal of which is to cement monopoly status, not to make the world a better place. Most of it goes to Republicans.
The leaders of Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc are NOT Republicans. Most of them are pro-immigration, pro-abortion, and pro-gay marriage.
- drewrv 10y agoMost of all, they are pro getting rich(er). They wouldn't be where they are today if that was not their top priority in life.
- jacquesm 10y agoIn fairness to some I believe the occasional stroke of luck does happen and people win fortune even if that was not the top priority in their lives.
- mehaveaccount 10y agoTrue, I always wonder what it must be like to be those billionaires because I would have retired after my first 10 million.
- omegaham 10y agoI think that if you have the drive to get to that point, you have a mindset that's not going to be satisfied with quitting. It's like the folks who work extremely hard at amateur sports. They're not going to be content with placing in the top 100. "Welp, I made the top 100. What a ride. Alright, I'm good. I'll keep cycling, but I'm not going to be training as hard anymore." They're looking at what they need to do to get into the top 50. Why does Paul Graham do what he does? He didn't even need to start Y Combinator. After Y Combinator had a bunch of success, he could have retired then, too. He's still plugging away. I assume he gets fulfillment from winning in a competitive marketplace, because he could, at any point, say, "Wait, why am I bothering with this? I'm rich!" The fact that he's still working is an indicator that for some people, work and business is just as fulfilling as, say, backpacking and weightlifting is for me.
- bobbington 10y agoSome rich guys probably do but get bored after a while! After all, golf will get boring pretty quick, but running a business of that scale has got to be interesting.
- xname2 10y ago"pro-abortion" lol.
- mehaveaccount 10y ago>"pro-abortion" lol. heartless thing to laugh about
- cortesoft 10y agoHe is laughing at your loaded word choice - no one is 'pro-abortion', they are 'pro-choice'.
- mehaveaccount 10y agoSame thing, and abortion is nothing to laugh about
- hueving 10y agoWhy is it loaded? It's the choice to have an abortion. It's like claiming 'pro-gun' is a loaded word when the supporters want people to have the choice to own a gun.
- cortesoft 10y agoI think 'pro-gun' is a bit different.... in fact, I think a better analogy would be people who want citizens to have the right to use a gun in self-defense against an intruder. You wouldn't say the person who is in favor of legal self-defense is 'pro-shooting-people', they just want people to have the right to do it if they need to. Someone who is 'pro-choice' doesn't want everyone to go out and have abortions every day, they want a woman to have the right to one if they need it.
- mehaveaccount 10y ago>I think 'pro-gun' is a bit different.... One rule for me, another for thee
- patrickmclaren 10y agoThe parent comment didn't make the case that the CEOs of these companies are Republicans - they were referring to the beneficiaries of the lobbying.