This is a great post, by far the best response to PG's post. I had much the same question, but I am not as good at formulating it the way this guy has done it.

This is a great post, by far the best response to PG's post. I had much the same question, but I am not as good at formulating it the way this guy has done it. I have a feeling PG was aware of this logical implication when he wrote his essay ("if large companies constrain, err, even cage people, why put heart and soul into something just to deliver it to them?") Yeah, there is the money, but most people I know don't put heart and soul into work only for the money, and PG himself is doing Arc, YC, Hacker News etc. without any particular monetary goal. I wonder what his response would be!