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Love your passion. I see nothing mixed about your feelings. :p

• michaelochurch 13y ago
  I have mixed feelings, specifically, about the bus blockade. It hurts the wrong people. I love technology and there are a lot of wonderful people in this world, but I hate what has been done to it, mostly by MBA-culture outsiders who'd be better for the world (and make more money) as passive backers, but their ego gets in the way and they have to act as an executive caste. "Business" should be about creating value for all (including oneself) and not about wielding and accumulating power.
  • visakanv 13y ago
    Oh, right. I see where you're coming from. I think the "executive caste" problem you describe is almost universal. It's a tragedy. =\
    • michaelochurch 13y ago
      Any aggregation (market, election) has the Cheap Votes Problem. People who don't really care will, if they can, sell their votes (often through passivity) and this makes people who purchase and can control the cheapest of the cheap votes very powerful. That's why vote-buying is illegal; because, otherwise, it will happen all over the place. VC is a Cheap Votes Problem over what a certain set of highly intelligent people, when given capital from a certain pool, will work on. Passive investors don't care (as long as they get decent returns) and trust the VCs, who use the investors' cheap votes to pursue their career goals and those of their friends.