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His argument regarding the way in which we develop "demons" is incoherent. Negative emotions are not just the product of disdain or fear of our own actions. Jus
by ruswick 13y ago
His argument regarding the way in which we develop "demons" is incoherent. Negative emotions are not just the product of disdain or fear of our own actions. Just because one thinks murder is abhorrent does not mean that they are secretly harboring a desire to commit murder. He never defends this claim, and merely asserts that, because people are displeased with the abundance of companies solving trivial problems, we must be afraid of entrepreneurship.
How does he reconcile this with people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, whom most people venerate. Did they not work exceptionally hard and face hardship that most of us couldn't bear? If the impetus for our dislike was really a fear of the toils of entrepreneurship, we wouldn't venerate any hard-working entrepreneurs like Elon and Steve. If anything, we'd dislike them more because they have faced more adversity than the photo-sharing apps.
No one dislikes these companies because they fear work. They dislike these companies because they are trivial, and there are too many exigent problems in the world to make another Pinterest clone.