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Judged by those wish you to lower yourself to their poor standards to ensure you don't elevate yourself to a position higher than theirs.
by jopejosh 9y ago
Judged by those wish you to lower yourself to their poor standards to ensure you don't elevate yourself to a position higher than theirs.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoActually, if you study the history of clothing (etc) , that isn't what it is about at all. It is a signalling of a maverick industry so powerful it can succeed without the approval or gatekeeping of stuffy banks etc. It is a huge middle finger to The Establishment. Think of how YC began with the idea of two guys in a cheap apartment seeking to be ramen profitable. I will suggest it is no coincidence that I have read that Paul Graham is fond of (iirc) cargo shorts and sandals. It's a hugely self entitled position that his personal comfort matters vastly more than the opinions of gatekeepers. There are good psychological reasons for enforcing it as an industrywide standard. You don't want people eroding that mindset of the industry or altering that social contract.
- dsacco 9y ago> It is a signalling of a maverick industry so powerful it can succeed without the approval or gatekeeping of stuffy banks etc. It is a huge middle finger to The Establishment. > There are good psychological reasons for enforcing it as an industrywide standard. You don't want people eroding that mindset of the industry or altering that social contract. If you dig into these two paragraphs a bit, you’ll see they’re incompatible. You’re just trading one establishment for a new one, which is evidently just a susceptible to gatekeeping and biases as the old one.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoWell, that's how overthrowing the old order and establishing a new one works. Cargo shorts and sandals become the new uniform. It still refuses to curry favor with the old establishment.