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I remember an acquaintance of mine, Siqi Chen, built Friends for Sale back in the day on Facebook and that was a great launch pad for his career, where he did a
by EGreg 6y ago
I remember an acquaintance of mine, Siqi Chen, built Friends for Sale back in the day on Facebook and that was a great launch pad for his career, where he did a lot more interesting stuff later :)
Out of all the article about FFS, I don't remember ANYONE mentioning it was offensive back then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_for_Sale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_for_Sale
- adventured 6y agoThere are a lot of things that weren't considered offensive on the Internet 10 or 20 years ago, that are now offensive. It shouldn't take more than a brief amount of thought to realize what imagery trading humans conjures up, and what happens next in terms of outrage and scandal and what will inevitably plague the service accordingly. Hint: will the trading all be perfectly fair? Without bigotry, without bias, without racism, without any accusations, and so on. Of course not, so it's obvious what will happen.
- EGreg 6y agoExpecting fairness in capitalism is like expecting the olympic games to feature random contestants drawn from a pool of the population at large.
- EGreg 6y agoThere are winners who go on to the next level And there are losers who drop out Takes money to make money In pure Capitalism you aren’t supposed to rebalance things for “fairness”. Bailing out the losers just makes the market competition weaker. It’s survival of the fittest. What exactly is “fairness” in the context of Capitalism? Someone happened to be at the right place and make money. Now they are ahead. And why not?