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True, creating value isn't sufficient. But if you're creating value, you don't need that community; that community needs you. That doesn't mean it'll be easy to
by sfink 7mo ago
True, creating value isn't sufficient. But if you're creating value, you don't need that community; that community needs you. That doesn't mean it'll be easy to leave nor that you won't lose a lot by doing so, but it's better than being a leech. Leeches can only survive by finding another victim to suck blood from, and at some point that merry-go-round is going to run out of horsies. Pardon the mixed metaphors.
- zelphirkalt 7mo agoPhilosophically, I agree, but in reality there are so many leeches, who take take take, their whole life, and in the end they are often better off, materialistically than the people, who provided the actual value.
- tasuki 7mo agoAh but of course leeches are better off materialistically than the people who provide value! It's almost a tautology. But do you think they're happier? For example geohot could be vastly richer than he is if he wanted to. He wisely chooses not to, and advises others to do the same.