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It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

by Racing0461 3y ago

ulfw 3y ago
Indeed. Silicon Valley's big "meritocracy" that is always so lauded.
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- flappyeagle 3y ago
  Go start a company and grow it to a billion dollars no one is stopping you
  - hfjjbf 3y ago
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  - pjerem 3y ago
    Of course a lot of people are going to stop you. Most, if not all, of the group of people we are talking about were born from rich parents who could afford them to study in the most prestigious universities of America and they were in their prime years when computers expanded everywhere during the 90´s/00’s and also when the economy was booming like never before in the human history. Those people are now in positions of extreme power that never existed before that. In fact, they are all in power to decide if your future billion dollars company will live or die, and if they allow it to live, it will be under their control. And if you somehow manage to fill through the cracks, you’ll ultimately be offered some big money to sell them your company well before you have the opportunity to become one of them.
    - pseg134 3y ago
      Good point! Better sit at home and not even try in that case. Thanks for your unique perspective that life is hard and it doesn’t feel fair.
      - pjerem 3y ago
        > Good point! Better sit at home and not even try in that case. That's not what I said. And not even trying what ? I'm not saying you can't create a succesful company and earn a lot of money. I'm talking about power. The type of power those people have is virtually inaccessible to anyone. Because they have enough money to stop you in your way up. They have a wide range of options between destructing your business, taking control of it, or giving you enough money so that you stop your ascension.
    - Racing0461 3y ago
      Why do you have to be the billionaire like sam altman? Why can't you + a girl be the upper middle class professionals that create a sam altman (sr sde salary mother + derm md father) working for 30 years should easily give your son a head start like altman's parents gave him.
lfclub 3y ago
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It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

ulfw 3y ago

Indeed. Silicon Valley's big "meritocracy" that is always so lauded.

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flappyeagle 3y ago
Go start a company and grow it to a billion dollars no one is stopping you
- hfjjbf 3y ago
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- pjerem 3y ago
  Of course a lot of people are going to stop you. Most, if not all, of the group of people we are talking about were born from rich parents who could afford them to study in the most prestigious universities of America and they were in their prime years when computers expanded everywhere during the 90´s/00’s and also when the economy was booming like never before in the human history. Those people are now in positions of extreme power that never existed before that. In fact, they are all in power to decide if your future billion dollars company will live or die, and if they allow it to live, it will be under their control. And if you somehow manage to fill through the cracks, you’ll ultimately be offered some big money to sell them your company well before you have the opportunity to become one of them.
  - pseg134 3y ago
    Good point! Better sit at home and not even try in that case. Thanks for your unique perspective that life is hard and it doesn’t feel fair.
    - pjerem 3y ago
      > Good point! Better sit at home and not even try in that case. That's not what I said. And not even trying what ? I'm not saying you can't create a succesful company and earn a lot of money. I'm talking about power. The type of power those people have is virtually inaccessible to anyone. Because they have enough money to stop you in your way up. They have a wide range of options between destructing your business, taking control of it, or giving you enough money so that you stop your ascension.
  - Racing0461 3y ago
    Why do you have to be the billionaire like sam altman? Why can't you + a girl be the upper middle class professionals that create a sam altman (sr sde salary mother + derm md father) working for 30 years should easily give your son a head start like altman's parents gave him.

lfclub 3y ago

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