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1) since when is justin.tv representative of the SV? 2) if you don't see how minimum-wage laws, health and safety regulations, mandatory health insurance, unio
by Rod 16y ago
1) since when is justin.tv representative of the SV?
2) if you don't see how minimum-wage laws, health and safety regulations, mandatory health insurance, union-friendly labor laws or environmental policies can hurt businesses, then it's because you're not on the finance arm of such businesses.
- abstractbill 16y ago1) What company would you pick? Is justin.tv very atypical of current Silicon Valley startups in some obvious way I've missed? 2) I've been at justin.tv since long before we were big enough to have a finance arm. I may have little idea of how those policies can hurt really big companies, but the interesting thing about Silicon Valley isn't the big companies - it's the startups.
- Rod 16y ago1) I would pick no company because the SV is not a homogeneous habitat. You have capital-intensive startups founded by PhD's trying to capitalize on 20 years of research... and you have startups bootstrapped out of lunchmoney by a couple of college dropouts who believe their new app will be a killer. Seriously, technology is more than the web. 2) generally speaking, imposing constraints can only decrease the maximum of the objective function one is trying to optimize; I did not say that such policies do hurt, I suggested it's not hard to see how they can hurt.
- cdavid 16y agoMost of those things could as well help business. Without data, it is rather difficult to say, especially since a lot of the points you raised are easy to see as cost, and their advantages less obvious to observe.