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>I have to disagree strongly with this statement Dude, you can disagree all day long. You have no locus standi - you were the employer, not the employee. One o
by dxbydt 14y ago
>I have to disagree strongly with this statement
Dude, you can disagree all day long. You have no locus standi - you were the employer, not the employee. One of these days, the shoe => other foot, and then you can tell me if it sucks or not. Especially when you are stuck in a new state with no healthcare & a family dependent on you, after leaving a 6 figure job at a bigco where chances of getting canned was like asymptotically close to nil. Anycase, I was not talking about you here...am sure you are an awesome guy & ran an awesome startup etc...just that there are other not-so-awesome startups & not-so-awesome founders out there.
- argumentum 14y agoEspecially when you are stuck in a new state with no healthcare & a family dependent on you I don't say it's the right decision for everyone, perhaps for someone with a dependent family the right decision is to stay with the big company. But to take away the FREEDOM to take a risk, that is simply wrong... let me quote James Madison from the 10th Federalist Paper. It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy (destroying libery), that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
- argumentum 14y agojust that there are other not-so-awesome startups & not-so-awesome founders out there. There are not-so-awesome big companies, not-so-awesome politicians, bureaucrats. To live your life afraid of running across "not-so-awesome" people and opportunities would mean you guarantee you will never encounter the truly awesome people and opportunities.