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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.

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.