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But your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk… Your local pizza guy or startup found

But your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk… Your local pizza guy or startup founder, are those the people you call “meat robots”?

flopunctro 5y ago
> your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk Citation needed for the above. Maybe their standard of living largely comes from the high taxes imposed on the rich. Or maybe it comes from decades of free education, or maybe from the oil reserves of some scandinavian states. Or maybe we just don't know; and that's ok too. I'm just saying that we shouldn't be so sure that the protestant work ethic is the necessary and sufficient thing for a good standard of living.
- dcolkitt 5y ago
  Virtually all improvements in living standards occur from the creation of new, more efficient products. Virtually all new products are created by risk-taking entrepreneurs, or very close equivalents inside larger corporations.
- Jensson 5y ago
  Soviet had all of those, but didn't allow risk taking founders. So far not a single country which doesn't enable risk taking founders to create big companies has succeeded in creating a good economy. So the data is really in the risk taking founders favor.
revolvingocelot 5y ago
>Your local pizza guy or startup founder Won't someone spare a thought for the minimum-wage, physically-risky lifestyle of the startup founder?! And you need your own car! You know, it's a more dangerous job than being a cop! ...oh, oh wait, that's pizza guy, sorry, I too get those "jobs" confused all the time!
- techbio 5y ago
  >> You know, it's [amoré] FTFY
- bjornsing 5y ago
  The pizza guy and the startup founder does have some things in common though: they live outside the comfy Swedish 9-to-5 mainstream, and could both be seen as “meat robots” I guess, if you are so inclined.

flopunctro 5y ago

> your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk Citation needed for the above. Maybe their standard of living largely comes from the high taxes imposed on the rich. Or maybe it comes from decades of free education, or maybe from the oil reserves of some scandinavian states. Or maybe we just don't know; and that's ok too. I'm just saying that we shouldn't be so sure that the protestant work ethic is the necessary and sufficient thing for a good standard of living.

dcolkitt 5y ago
Virtually all improvements in living standards occur from the creation of new, more efficient products. Virtually all new products are created by risk-taking entrepreneurs, or very close equivalents inside larger corporations.
Jensson 5y ago
Soviet had all of those, but didn't allow risk taking founders. So far not a single country which doesn't enable risk taking founders to create big companies has succeeded in creating a good economy. So the data is really in the risk taking founders favor.

revolvingocelot 5y ago

>Your local pizza guy or startup founder Won't someone spare a thought for the minimum-wage, physically-risky lifestyle of the startup founder?! And you need your own car! You know, it's a more dangerous job than being a cop! ...oh, oh wait, that's pizza guy, sorry, I too get those "jobs" confused all the time!

techbio 5y ago
>> You know, it's [amoré] FTFY
bjornsing 5y ago
The pizza guy and the startup founder does have some things in common though: they live outside the comfy Swedish 9-to-5 mainstream, and could both be seen as “meat robots” I guess, if you are so inclined.