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This is so 100% pure CEO thinking it hurts.
by luckydata 7y ago
This is so 100% pure CEO thinking it hurts.
- blibble 7y agoit could easily be a line out of Silicon Valley
- me_me_me 7y agoIt really feels to me comically childish behaviour. You are at the top of the world and yet you still need more marbles then anyone around you. But why would you care?
- konschubert 7y agoMatt Levine in “Money Stuff” yesterday: One thing to say here is that the people who are Econ-101-rational tend to be the ones who make the most money. Every time you read about a workaholic billionaire and think “boy, not me, if I had a billion dollars I’d be on the beach,” the answer is always “well that’s why you don’t have a billion dollars.” If you have the characteristics that enable you to make a billion dollars, you don’t usually turn them off once you get there.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoHow is it childish behavior? If I'm paying top dollar for something (in this case, lobbying governments for tax breaks), then if I don't get top results, I'm wasting money, which is disappointing.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoYou do not get that rich without the motivation to maximize profit. He could have sold Amazon in 1999 and not worked an hour since and still have millions. But that's generally not how these people operate.
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- pjc50 7y agoIt does make me wonder why people are worried about paperclip maximiser AIs when paperclip maximiser CEOs are out there and just as dangerous. The world is full of people who'd cut down every tree in the rainforest so long as they kept getting paid for it.
- ksec 7y agoWhat would you do if others are gaining a competitive advantage from Government while you get nothing?
- luckydata 7y agoCEO?