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It's also a horrible business practice for his VC fund. As an entrepreneur there's no way I would want to work with Khosla ventures. He just comes across as a
by burtonator 7y ago
It's also a horrible business practice for his VC fund. As an entrepreneur there's no way I would want to work with Khosla ventures. He just comes across as an asshole and a bully in this fight.
Beaches and rivers belong to all of us.
- atonse 7y agoWith that stance (which I mostly agree with in theory, by the way), isn't it increasingly hard to do business with most VCs?
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoMorals have always been compromising to profits. The VCs will just find someone without moral scruples to make their money for them.
- jkmcf 7y agoNot mention ethics, but we were probably already assuming they were compromised.
- NelsonMinar 7y agoKeep looking, you've almost grasped it...
- diminoten 7y agoI'd bet literally tens of dollars it has no material impact on his fund.
- flattone 7y agoI wish we could measure "asshole-ness" then we could have asshole tax
- luckydata 7y agothis lawsuit is essentially it.
- flattone 7y agoBut I mean like a literal like TurboTax question what was your asshole score last year
- bdcravens 7y agoGiven the effort Intuit puts into fighting off free e-filing, they'd be conflicted adding that question I think.
- flattone 7y agoWould their resistance matter when the government hears the potential dollar amount? I'm in the United States I don't know where you're from but if we had an asshole tax our government would be the most incomprehensibly rich entity in the universe.
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoSo... a social credit score?
- flattone 7y agoGood point. :/
- SuoDuanDao 7y agoI actually think it could work in principle, but maybe you should only get a tax break if it's unusually low and otherwise nothing happens.
- magduf 7y agoThe way this society is structured, it's basically the inverse. Assholes usually end up doing better, at least if they're smart.
- bhb916 7y ago"Beaches and rivers belong to all of us." This seems like an arbitrary distinction. What makes you think this and not something like "all geographic features belong to all of us"? What makes beaches and rivers so special that rights suddenly don't apply?
- groby_b 7y agoWhat makes you think this shouldn't extend to all geographic features? Why do we have property rights to land? Owning land merely means being the last in a line of people who enriched themselves on the backs of others by taking common property and depriving everybody else.
- riantogo 7y agoI'm curious to know what alternate, practical solutions there might be. The current system mostly work. Are you proposing no one can own land and hence no one can build exclusive homes/establishments? Anyone is free to build anywhere and pray no one else wants to move in at will? How will such a system work?
- madhadron 7y agoThe place to start looking is Journal of the Commons. Communal ownership with limited privileges of individual use have been a regular feature of mankind's societies for a long, long time.
- satyrnein 7y agoThe Georgist or geolibertarian positions on this center around a Land Value Tax, sometimes believed to be the only necessary tax. Someone does own the land, but is taxed at a rate that captures the entire value of the (unimproved) land, so in some ways it's more akin to rent, which neutralizes some of the historic advantages certain groups enjoyed. This tax is essentially paid to the public to compensate them for being excluded from the land. The tax moves up as the value of the land increases, so idle landowners do not capture the value themselves, and may be forced to sell to people who will put it to more productive use. That's just scratching the surface, though!
- yumraj 7y agoYou may think so, but in the end money wins. A lot of people even take Chinese money, even YC opened China office for a while, which they closed a couple of days ago.
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- rchaud 7y ago> It's also a horrible business practice for his VC fund. As an entrepreneur there's no way I would want to work with Khosla ventures. And therein lies the rub. Many entrepreneurs will not care about stuff like this because his money is still green. The Uber CEO just the other day referred to the Kashoggi killing as a "mistake". Adam Neumann grew up in Israel but is happy to take money from the same pot KSA uses to fund extremist groups, and publicly claims that MBS and Jared Kushner (!) will save the world. For some people, Greed > everything.
- LegitShady 7y agoImagine if everyone who disagrees with you was greedy. People couldnt hold those views for other reasons, and you're definitely not making a caricature instead of discussing reality. Have a great day!
- rchaud 7y ago> Imagine if everyone who disagrees with you was greedy. Didn't say it was everyone, gave two examples of two well-documented individuals, and said that this would be true of "some" people.
- whydoyoucare 7y agoDo you realize your statement merely comes across as "virtue signaling" than anything else? Thanks for a post-lunch chuckle! :-)