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But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? HN is about denominators. We all want to get rich. Some of

by jrq 8y ago

But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? HN is about denominators. We all want to get rich. Some of us are willing to work, some of us are willing to hustle, etc. The ideals of YC don't correspond to Internet commenters. Hell, half of the comments here probably don't even correspond to the true intent of the author's opinion. Disclaimer: I'm just some moron on the Internet. No need to wax philosophical over Internet comments.

Blahah 8y ago
We really don't all want to get rich. Some of us just want to solve problems, help people, or alleviate suffering. Some people want to achieve that by getting rich first (not me). A large proportion of even those who want to get rich for selfish reasons don't want to do that by screwing other people over.
- mkirklions 8y ago
  I wanted to solve problems without money, but I quickly realized that I can solve significantly more problems with money, than with less money. I sold out, took a high paying job. I pay interns to write articles and finance a charity. I spend my evenings writing an app(that I hope makes billions). I can only imagine how many people my charity will teach healthy, low cost food skills if I had millions at my disposal. Its kinda awful, but if I dont do it, I dont think anyone is going to teach kids how to cook low cost foods.
  - Blahah 8y ago
    Cool, but other people have found ways to solve problems (often leveraging large amounts of other people's money) without personally enriching themselves. Personally, I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than solutions. Perhaps I'm just not good at whatever skills it takes to be rich and an effective altruist. But I'm pretty good at helping people with money decide how to spend it solving problems I care about. Now I make enough to pay other people to handle things I'm bad at, while enabling me to pursue my goals. But not more. I don't have anything against people who pursue personal wealth in order to do social good. That's admirable. But to suggest that it's the only way to so social good (which you didn't do, but grandparent did) is just wrong.
    - mkirklions 8y ago
      > I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than solutions. Can you explain this further? I'm in my 20s, have over 6 figure income, and I'm curious what problems you ran into.
nck4222 8y ago
>But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? No, that's why I commented about how it was possible the community has diverged greatly from the incubator. I don't know what the overall principles of the majority of commenters/founders are, but I think the fact that the quote is (still) the first/most upvoted response in this thread hints that it's probably not an abnormal view of the community.
- stochastic_monk 8y ago
  I took it as a gag, but maybe it’s just because it’s so ridiculous to me.
  - codetrotter 8y ago
    Yeah me too.

by jrq 8y ago

Blahah 8y ago

We really don't all want to get rich. Some of us just want to solve problems, help people, or alleviate suffering. Some people want to achieve that by getting rich first (not me). A large proportion of even those who want to get rich for selfish reasons don't want to do that by screwing other people over.

mkirklions 8y ago
I wanted to solve problems without money, but I quickly realized that I can solve significantly more problems with money, than with less money. I sold out, took a high paying job. I pay interns to write articles and finance a charity. I spend my evenings writing an app(that I hope makes billions). I can only imagine how many people my charity will teach healthy, low cost food skills if I had millions at my disposal. Its kinda awful, but if I dont do it, I dont think anyone is going to teach kids how to cook low cost foods.
- Blahah 8y ago
  Cool, but other people have found ways to solve problems (often leveraging large amounts of other people's money) without personally enriching themselves. Personally, I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than solutions. Perhaps I'm just not good at whatever skills it takes to be rich and an effective altruist. But I'm pretty good at helping people with money decide how to spend it solving problems I care about. Now I make enough to pay other people to handle things I'm bad at, while enabling me to pursue my goals. But not more. I don't have anything against people who pursue personal wealth in order to do social good. That's admirable. But to suggest that it's the only way to so social good (which you didn't do, but grandparent did) is just wrong.
  - mkirklions 8y ago
    > I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than solutions. Can you explain this further? I'm in my 20s, have over 6 figure income, and I'm curious what problems you ran into.

nck4222 8y ago

>But do you seriously believe that the most successful founders' comments are represented in news.yc? No, that's why I commented about how it was possible the community has diverged greatly from the incubator. I don't know what the overall principles of the majority of commenters/founders are, but I think the fact that the quote is (still) the first/most upvoted response in this thread hints that it's probably not an abnormal view of the community.

stochastic_monk 8y ago
I took it as a gag, but maybe it’s just because it’s so ridiculous to me.
- codetrotter 8y ago
  Yeah me too.