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Those are all good recommendations, but if anything tech/SV is resembling every day more and more to 1980s WS.
by cambalache 6y ago
Those are all good recommendations, but if anything tech/SV is resembling every day more and more to 1980s WS.
- swyx 6y agoyep. i'm merely one of many finance bros that escaped to tech. if you work in martech, then you absolutely outpaced wallstreet haha.
- ghaff 6y agoI think it's different in that you do have some subset of people who think they're doing things for the common good, and some actually are, but... "Greed is good" Gordon Gecko
- cambalache 6y agoLots of finance people, rightly or wrongly justify their work as giving a valuable service to humanity: From "providing liquidity" to "absorbing risk" and "helping your pension grow" the list of supposed goods provided by finance is very long.
- ghaff 6y agoAnd they're not entirely wrong. Although there are benefits provided by other industries on net (probably including tech) that are greater.
- swyx 6y agoand this isn't much different from "we're making the world a better place by ____" https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso https://youtu.be/B8C5sjjhsso