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Building a business that provides useful products and services isn't "extraction minded." Most of the people I've know over the years who start businesses do so
by ch4s3 4y ago
Building a business that provides useful products and services isn't "extraction minded." Most of the people I've know over the years who start businesses do so because they want to be the one making decisions and having the ultimate responsibility. A lot of them are very community minded.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoWe are talking different scales. Billionaires vs your run of the mill millionaires.
- ch4s3 4y agoI mean, Bezos started Amazon for a relatively modest amount of funding in a garage and built the "everything store" with a relentless focus on customer service. It's not like he's some 19th century oil baron. I don't want to fall into the trap of reading a mans mind from a distance, but you claim of "extractive mindset" is utterly unsupported and ideological.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoOf course it’s ideological. How else does one arrive at ideas and concepts after a review of empirical evidence? The facts are the same, the conclusions we arrive at (including our ideologies) will be the intersection of the facts, our mental models, and our life experiences. Edit: wrt to your reply, agree to disagree.
- ch4s3 4y agoTo be clear I'm saying that the claims starts from ideology and works backwards ignoring any other factors.