Some interesting observations and certainly it meshes with my own corporate/public-sector experience in some aspects; but it ends as a list of complaints and an

Some interesting observations and certainly it meshes with my own corporate/public-sector experience in some aspects; but it ends as a list of complaints and an urge to buy a book. As well, some key words such as the repeated "Feeding through" really push it into realm of rants to elicit a predictable response or wink to the knowing/in-crowd, rather than an attempt to start a conversation or offer a solution :-/ I would also argue that in America specifically there ARE numerous counter-examples, and I'd vouch to say that HN is probably a statistically significant outlier of such. A lot of startups we discuss or celebrate (and even lots of startups that we bash;) work on very different principles and incentives than those listed here.