Re: your #2. This is also something I've been thinking about. I jokingly talk about "The Fear". The Fear is what makes people work hard. The Fear that your com

Re: your #2. This is also something I've been thinking about. I jokingly talk about "The Fear". The Fear is what makes people work hard. The Fear that your company might not exist, that it might all come to an end, that you'd better get after it, work hard, and generally do your best work. People at Tesla have The Fear. People at startups have even more of it. People at Google, emphatically, DO NOT have The Fear. It might be because they're basically a monopoly in many things (search) or because their management encourages it, I don't know. But it feels like they're worried about a lot of things and business success / customers / shipping / competition, the things people usually care about in a competitive market economy, isn't a big part of it. I've heard that great societies often fall when their elites become too inwardly-focused and fight each other too much, rather than whatever enemy/competition they have. I think this is what's going on at Google; their elites are so distracted by political correctness, gender politics, etc. etc. that they're opening themselves up to get overtaken. I don't know by who or what, but it does feel like so much of all of this is such a giant distraction. I think this sort of thing is going to get more common in tech though. There are such huge reward to monopoly and let's face it, Google has no real competition in search, or short video playback (Youtube), or Internet advertising other than facebook.