Looks like a lot of young people are taking page directly from from Time Ferris's book Four Hour Work Week. A LOT of people I know have a singular goal in their

Looks like a lot of young people are taking page directly from from Time Ferris's book Four Hour Work Week. A LOT of people I know have a singular goal in their life: Make X million dollars in shortest possible time and then live off of that for rest of the life. It would be astonishing how much of the activities are generated in software world from this goal compared to other areas of engineering and art. The net effect is large number of short lived and/or crappy products that is designed for nothing but cashing out as quickly as possible. Founders creating companies not to create a long term value or advance humanity or state of the art or make people's lives better but find people with money who can be talked in to to shell away some money with promises of future. Someone had stated before that best minds of our generation are busy increasing ad revenue by 1%. I think things are more worse than that. Best minds of our generation are busy plotting shortest possible path to retire at youngest possible age.