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Yeah of course, these people treat you better after you snap. Investors don't respect nice people. You need to create fear. As my friend once told me, "you need
by cryptica 5y ago
Yeah of course, these people treat you better after you snap. Investors don't respect nice people. You need to create fear. As my friend once told me, "you need to be a killer."
They can't have killers on the loose hating their guts, they need to bribe them into compliance. That's what funding is really about. Unfortunately, it's a bad idea because it puts killers into positions of authority. Maybe that's why society is so messed up now.
- beaconstudios 5y agoDoes VC (read: capitalism in general) encourage sociopathy? Yes. But what you wrote reads a little intentional/conspiratorial. It's not a case of "VCs want to control the monsters", it's "if the cold rational decision is to fire 10 people who won't be able to afford rent, you'll be more successful as a businessperson if you do that rather than being an empathic human being and refusing to fire them".
- cryptica 5y agoI believe that the intelligence of a system can be greater than the sum of its parts. The individuals don't necessarily need to explicitly conspire together. All it takes is one or two influential people behind the scenes who see a possible problem or a possible opportunity and start gently tugging the strings in the direction they want. The puppets don't need to understand what they're doing. It works better if they don't.
- mwseibel 5y agoI didn't perceive this as him snapping or being impolite or being a "killer". He was just being real with us.