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You took the words right out of my mouth. This lottery mentality trivializes everything and keeps people focused on the jackpot vs. building sustainable or eve
by unclebucknasty 14y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth.
This lottery mentality trivializes everything and keeps people focused on the jackpot vs. building sustainable or even meaningful businesses.
It's this constant holding up of people who got lucky as some sort of cruel carrot for everyone to chase that's really started to irk me. I don't begrudge the young man his success in the slightest, but enough with turning everything into a soulless reality show.
- anigbrowl 14y agoThe problem is that many people labor away in their own fields while making significant contributions, and never get anywhere near this kind of payout. That diminishes people's faith in the idea of a broadly meritocratic private sector.
- madaxe 14y agoBingo. I have a profitable, scalable enterprise. We're worthless because we're profitable - if you make money, your value is a multiplier of profit. Now, if you run a startup that makes no revenue, or even loses huge amounts of money, your value is a multiplier of the profit you could theoretically in a crack dream make.
- flyinRyan 14y agoWell, the thing is that those people making significant contributions probably generated just as much or more wealth. They just had a rent seeker between them and the market that absorbed it.
- cygwin98 14y agoBelieve me, this is not a lottery, at least in this case. No, I don't have any facts just my intuition. I consider this more in lieu of the case how BillG got the DOS contract.