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Excellent trolling, well done.

by Luc 8y ago

sergefaguet 8y ago
hah. i do believe every word of it.
- rawTruthHurts 8y ago
  Rather off-topic, but I'm curious abut your view of Bezos charitably funding schools instead of improving his worker's conditions.
  - sergefaguet 8y ago
    very positive. he is building value for society by: - bringing cheaper great products to vast numbers of people - building AWS infrastructure that enables other people to build products cheaper and faster - creating huge number of jobs (that you might not like but lots of people in the world would like to have) - funding things he cares about one of the most useful and beneficial people in the world.
    - ryandrake 8y ago
      When philanthropy funds the public good, society abdicates responsibility of defining “public good”, and leaves that to a handful of philanthropists. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees generated this wealth and billions of customers enabled it, yet one person gets to decide which services or causes are worthy of funding. This is called plutarchy.
      - sergefaguet 8y ago
        thankfully the world does not support your view that it is the warehouse workers and customers, and not the entrepreneurs, who create wealth. kind of surprised you are on YC/HN if that is what you believe...
    - rawTruthHurts 8y ago
      While there is no denial for that, I fail to see how that is an insight into the the charity vs workers' conditions issue
- InitialLastName 8y ago
  It must suck to be homeless like that.
  - sergefaguet 8y ago
    it has its challenges, but also lots of upsides. have to train self to be very good with habits, investing in relationships and the like. i've been doing it for the last 2 years and at first it was kind of depressing but now have never been happier. e.g. last 2 weeks spent in silicon valley having 40+ meetings a week w really smart people i learned a lot from. got fed up w meetings, so now working from beach in tulum for a week by myself. next week working fdrom rome/florence with a really cool girl. then doing a certain plant ceremony in a certain undisclosed country. etc.
ryandrake 8y ago
The best trolls are the ones where you legitimately can’t tell if they truly believe the shit they say. This one is more “cartoon villain”. It’s a characature—what many people believe an evil, mustache-twirling rich person might say. Pretty transparent, but good effort.
- sergefaguet 8y ago
  this is me: http://medium.com/@sergefaguet/ http://medium.com/@sergefaguet/ YC alum so pretty sure this is not a fake HN ID :) i wish people didn't see this stuff as Bond villainy though. this is clearly a failure on my part in terms of communication... thinking on how to remain authentic but reduce that effect.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - ficklepickle 8y ago
    I'm pretty sure it's you that doesn't fully appreciate the implications of your statement.
  - ryandrake 8y ago
    Totally encourage working on your message. You are likely not going to see much support or agreement by boasting about enjoying the benefits provided by society while dodging paying for it through taxes.
    - sergefaguet 8y ago
      well i don't agree that i am "enjoying the benefits provided by society while dodging paying for it through taxes." i think people who create wealth pay for society already. i am thinking of working on my message, but i'm not going to change my convictions just because people don't like it.
      - fzeroracer 8y ago

Excellent trolling, well done.

by Luc 8y ago

Excellent trolling, well done.

sergefaguet 8y ago

hah. i do believe every word of it.

rawTruthHurts 8y ago
Rather off-topic, but I'm curious abut your view of Bezos charitably funding schools instead of improving his worker's conditions.
- sergefaguet 8y ago
  very positive. he is building value for society by: - bringing cheaper great products to vast numbers of people - building AWS infrastructure that enables other people to build products cheaper and faster - creating huge number of jobs (that you might not like but lots of people in the world would like to have) - funding things he cares about one of the most useful and beneficial people in the world.
  - ryandrake 8y ago
    When philanthropy funds the public good, society abdicates responsibility of defining “public good”, and leaves that to a handful of philanthropists. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees generated this wealth and billions of customers enabled it, yet one person gets to decide which services or causes are worthy of funding. This is called plutarchy.
    - sergefaguet 8y ago
      thankfully the world does not support your view that it is the warehouse workers and customers, and not the entrepreneurs, who create wealth. kind of surprised you are on YC/HN if that is what you believe...
  - rawTruthHurts 8y ago
    While there is no denial for that, I fail to see how that is an insight into the the charity vs workers' conditions issue
InitialLastName 8y ago
It must suck to be homeless like that.
- sergefaguet 8y ago
  it has its challenges, but also lots of upsides. have to train self to be very good with habits, investing in relationships and the like. i've been doing it for the last 2 years and at first it was kind of depressing but now have never been happier. e.g. last 2 weeks spent in silicon valley having 40+ meetings a week w really smart people i learned a lot from. got fed up w meetings, so now working from beach in tulum for a week by myself. next week working fdrom rome/florence with a really cool girl. then doing a certain plant ceremony in a certain undisclosed country. etc.

ryandrake 8y ago

The best trolls are the ones where you legitimately can’t tell if they truly believe the shit they say. This one is more “cartoon villain”. It’s a characature—what many people believe an evil, mustache-twirling rich person might say. Pretty transparent, but good effort.

sergefaguet 8y ago
this is me: http://medium.com/@sergefaguet/ http://medium.com/@sergefaguet/ YC alum so pretty sure this is not a fake HN ID :) i wish people didn't see this stuff as Bond villainy though. this is clearly a failure on my part in terms of communication... thinking on how to remain authentic but reduce that effect.
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
- ficklepickle 8y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's you that doesn't fully appreciate the implications of your statement.
- ryandrake 8y ago
  Totally encourage working on your message. You are likely not going to see much support or agreement by boasting about enjoying the benefits provided by society while dodging paying for it through taxes.
  - sergefaguet 8y ago
    well i don't agree that i am "enjoying the benefits provided by society while dodging paying for it through taxes." i think people who create wealth pay for society already. i am thinking of working on my message, but i'm not going to change my convictions just because people don't like it.
    - fzeroracer 8y ago