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Life expectancy is dropping like a rock, and that's a number with a little more rigor behind it than PG's moronic hand waving. The guy has no idea what he's tal
by courtf 6y ago
Life expectancy is dropping like a rock, and that's a number with a little more rigor behind it than PG's moronic hand waving. The guy has no idea what he's talking about and comes across as incredibly desperate to justify obscene hoarding of wealth. He'll draw a line between any two data points you can dig up, no matter how distant and spuriously correlated, if it will allow him to fellate a few billionaires.
We get it, these people pay you. Just say it: "I can see nothing wrong with the current distribution of wealth because the lenses in my eyeglasses are actually solid gold, a gift bequeathed to me by the Duchess of Facebook." The guy needs meritocracy to not be a myth, because he's styled himself as some kind of kingmaker who can selectively pluck only the most deserving young founders from a bubbling vat of Stanford alumni DNA. It's been a good run, but it's just getting gross now.
- danans 6y ago> The guy has no idea what he's talking about and comes across as incredibly desperate to justify obscene hoarding of wealth. I don't think he's ill-intentioned, but like many people in his position, he's probably just personally unaffected by the crumbling of public goods. He'll never take a dangerously overcrowded train, nor will he ever worry about whether his kids are in a safe school. Inequality seems mostly like a set of interesting stats to him, with little real world negative personal impact. I don't believe he has ill intent because he has taken concrete steps to examine the issues (i.e. YC's UBI experiment), but it sounds like he's limited like anyone by the environment he mostly exists in, where he reasons about issues like inequality too much from data like the Forbes top 100 list.