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Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
by motoko 19y ago
Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
- jyrzyk 19y ago"What seems to have worked best for cultures is to play off the men against each other, competing for respect and other rewards that end up distributed very unequally. Men have to prove themselves by producing things the society values." = "Make something people want."
- leoc 19y agoIt also happens to tie in well with the WSJ article about Draper. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146 )
- jsnx 19y agoYeah, work really hard, innovate and get nowhere!
- jsnx 19y agoI'm not sure that men's willingness to make things that people want really sets them apart from women. Across cultures, women play an important (and often exclusive) role in the economy -- drying fish or tending sheep or what have you. Women rarely played a role in the macro-economy, true enough; but for much of history, trade within a village was for more valuable than trade between villages or nations. It's misleading to suggest that the present worthlessness of small scale trade implies the past worthlessness of women as economic engines.
- brlewis 19y agoSee the parts about attitudes toward risk, and the different businesses men and women tend to start.
- akkartik 19y agoAlso the different characteristics we would need for social networks for men vs women.