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S/he wasn't justifying sneering for the rich, they were saying they understood sneering at lifestyle businesses in the case of people who succeeded at building

by traek 9y ago

S/he wasn't justifying sneering for the rich, they were saying they understood sneering at lifestyle businesses in the case of people who succeeded at building unicorn startups. It's not about money or class, it's about success in a particular field and judgement of that particular field.

Mz 9y ago
Sure. That's why they specified ...some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire ... Because money is not relevant to their point. /s Also, I hate the term "lifestyle business" because: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-lifestyle-business-that.html http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...
- coldtea 9y ago
  >Sure. That's why they specified ...some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire ... Because money is not relevant to their point. Yes, "sure". My argument was clear enough, and as the parent wrote "it's not about money or class, it's about success in a particular field and judgement of that particular field". What part of either seems difficult to parse? Obviously money is relevant to my point in so much as it serves as the proof of that startup/unicorn success. The idea, and it's bizarro that I have to state it again, is rather that if you're to sneer at somebody for not "making it big" with their business, it only makes sense if you do it while yourself having a bigger business. That's why I wrote millionaire/billionaire, not because I hold millionaires/billionaires in high esteem, or find it OK for them to look down on people. I just find it more logical for a more succesful in business person to sneer at a less succesful in business regarding the latters business success, than the opposite.
  - Mz 9y ago
    Money is not the only measure of success. Yet it seems to far too often be the only one cited, whether on HN or elsewhere in the world. Your inability to see that your point is about money and classism while using net worth as THE measure of success worth noting is both frustrating and all too common.

by traek 9y ago

Mz 9y ago

Sure. That's why they specified ...some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire ... Because money is not relevant to their point. /s Also, I hate the term "lifestyle business" because: http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-lifestyle-business-that.html http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...

coldtea 9y ago
>Sure. That's why they specified ...some startup multi-millionaire/billionaire ... Because money is not relevant to their point. Yes, "sure". My argument was clear enough, and as the parent wrote "it's not about money or class, it's about success in a particular field and judgement of that particular field". What part of either seems difficult to parse? Obviously money is relevant to my point in so much as it serves as the proof of that startup/unicorn success. The idea, and it's bizarro that I have to state it again, is rather that if you're to sneer at somebody for not "making it big" with their business, it only makes sense if you do it while yourself having a bigger business. That's why I wrote millionaire/billionaire, not because I hold millionaires/billionaires in high esteem, or find it OK for them to look down on people. I just find it more logical for a more succesful in business person to sneer at a less succesful in business regarding the latters business success, than the opposite.
- Mz 9y ago
  Money is not the only measure of success. Yet it seems to far too often be the only one cited, whether on HN or elsewhere in the world. Your inability to see that your point is about money and classism while using net worth as THE measure of success worth noting is both frustrating and all too common.