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Slow down, Karl. I'm a founder. I can tell you, external funding is as generous now as it's ever been, and in my network there are YC alumns (and 2-time alums)
by encoderer 5y ago
Slow down, Karl.
I'm a founder. I can tell you, external funding is as generous now as it's ever been, and in my network there are YC alumns (and 2-time alums) that would disagree with your take.
Also, we are in a golden age of bootstrapping, you don't need to raise to get a company up and running.
All this to say: Maybe just possibly capitalism isn't so bad? My dad is the manager of a gas station, and I am the founder of a startup with financial security. Anything really is possible when you work for it.
- aaomidi 5y ago> Maybe just possibly capitalism isn't so bad That's the best part, it isn't for a chunk of people. It destroys life for another chunk of people. So yeah, maybe, to you, it's not bad. To others? It's fucked.
- infamouscow 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_... is a pretty long page.
- aaomidi 5y ago1. I never said anything about communism. 2. Do you consider all the supply chain related deaths, all the prison related deaths, all the civilians killed in America going after oil part of "people killed under capitalism?"
- infamouscow 5y agoWhat you're describing is deaths under Crony capitalism.
- andrepd 5y ago> Maybe just possibly capitalism isn't so bad? Ironically, you know who else thought the exact same thing, lavishing praise on capitalism? Karl Marx. Maybe educate yourself and open your horizons to something outside your narrow views. I have no problem with people being ignorant (nobody knows everything), but it's grating when somebody is proud of it. > Anything really is possible when you work for it. Actually nevermind, such naivete is mind-boggling.
- encoderer 5y agoGreat chat Andre!