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In general, if you run a product or company it is a bad idea to get political. You instantly create 50% detractors when you need to always win about 60% support

In general, if you run a product or company it is a bad idea to get political. You instantly create 50% detractors when you need to always win about 60% support. Hold off politics activism until you have fuck you money. In most cases politics is a waste of time, change the world via the market and products and focus on your own success. Don't degrade your work by getting into politics, it is merely a divisive system today. Politics suck and they are past the point of grass roots influencing anything, only money works [1][2]. Palmer, like many other 20-somethings, got caught up in it. Political activism peaks around 27-30 ish, Usually by 30 you realize it is all bullshit and a waste of time other than voting and giving money to causes you believe in or that you think should win, quietly, on your own without sharing with the world your beliefs because others have differing beliefs. [1] https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem [2] http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

elastic_church 10y ago
Hm ... given Oculus' continued hegemony in the market place, and the high reward of supporting the United States' winning administration in the global marketplace, couldn't he just as easily not.... done anything? Like there are still devs on Oculus, Trump won, every one with clout that supported him is now in power, and I personally had no idea uhm yah he's probably got a lucrative VR contract signed up w/ DARPA, I think this is all show
- MagnumOpus 10y ago
  > Oculus' continued hegemony in the market place I don't know what you're on about? Despite billions of money thrown at it by Zucks, the Vive outsells the Oculus 2:1, the PSVR outsells it by 3:1, the Gear VR outsells it by 18:1. [1]. There are still devs on Oculus (dozens of them!), but everybody sane develops on SteamVR from what I hear... Palmer is smart to take his cash and run while he can. [1] http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/6-3m-vr-headsets-were-shipped-in-2016/0178470 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/6-3m-vr-headsets-were-shipped...
  - elastic_church 10y ago
    Wow! Alright

elastic_church 10y ago

Hm ... given Oculus' continued hegemony in the market place, and the high reward of supporting the United States' winning administration in the global marketplace, couldn't he just as easily not.... done anything? Like there are still devs on Oculus, Trump won, every one with clout that supported him is now in power, and I personally had no idea uhm yah he's probably got a lucrative VR contract signed up w/ DARPA, I think this is all show

MagnumOpus 10y ago
> Oculus' continued hegemony in the market place I don't know what you're on about? Despite billions of money thrown at it by Zucks, the Vive outsells the Oculus 2:1, the PSVR outsells it by 3:1, the Gear VR outsells it by 18:1. [1]. There are still devs on Oculus (dozens of them!), but everybody sane develops on SteamVR from what I hear... Palmer is smart to take his cash and run while he can. [1] http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/6-3m-vr-headsets-were-shipped-in-2016/0178470 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/6-3m-vr-headsets-were-shipped...
- elastic_church 10y ago
  Wow! Alright