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When I saw the YC post about praising DoorDash and Airbnb, it was clear that YC endorses doing borderline illegal things in the name of growth. Same with Pg’s p
by nojvek 6y ago
When I saw the YC post about praising DoorDash and Airbnb, it was clear that YC endorses doing borderline illegal things in the name of growth. Same with Pg’s posts of how to create billionaires.
In a way he’s not wrong, about hacking taken to a whole new level of messing with entire cities and industries.
But as a greater society, without proper regulation, we’ll have a dystopia. The rich are insanely rich while the median has barely gone up. The pie is much larger compared to 10 years ago, but most of it is captured by a fair few.
It is not a great world to be in if it continues for the next 100 years, which it’ll likely be as technology divides us into haves and have -nots.
- wasdfff 6y agoIt just blows my mind how, reliably, selfish people end up in positions of power. They then work the system to increase wealth or power as much as possible, everything else including the environment that we all live off of be damned, because you will be dead in 50 years anyway. Where are the altruists? Chanting in some buddhist temple? Why are things so evil?
- weaksauce 6y agoin a lot of ways a lot of the billionaires are the robber barons of our times. having multiple billions in wealth doesn't seem to be compatible with a healthy society and seems to be a failure of that society. the sheer scale of even one single billion dollars compared to a million dollars is absurd. a million seconds of time is almost 12 days. a billion seconds is 32 years of time.