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>are antithetical to human progress. This can be said of many startups, and this fact is causing a reactionary feeling toward the Valley in many tech/neckbeard
by mehrzad 14y ago
>are antithetical to human progress.
This can be said of many startups, and this fact is causing a reactionary feeling toward the Valley in many tech/neckbeard circles.
- pshin45 14y agoAgree, technology for the sake of technology and growth for the sake of growth does not a business (or social good) make. I love so much of what YC does but I wish their motto was not "Make something people want" but rather "Make something people need" because the two can often be diametrically opposed. Kinda like how a parent should not always give their child everything he/she wants (candy at every meal, constant attention, making a mess/scene everywhere you go, etc). If we as startups only tried to make stuff people "want" then the world might end up looking like the dystopian society in the 2006 film "Idiocracy".
- mehrzad 14y agoIf tech were really like that, maybe Tent and Spideroak would be more popular. If only.