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> it's hard to argue that more startups would hurt the economy. It's not as clear that government subsidization of your position would benefit the economy in t
by teacup50 13y ago
> it's hard to argue that more startups would hurt the economy.
It's not as clear that government subsidization of your position would benefit the economy in the long-term, especially after more closely examining the beneficiaries of the majority of wealth extracted by VC startups.
It frightens that you seem to honestly believe that you -- specifically and individually -- deserve special privileges that not only will the rest of us equally hard-working, economy-growing, business-founding citizens not get, but that will make it that much harder for us to compete with your already privileged position.
- ahomescu1 13y agoI don't see any claims of "government subsidization" or "special privileges". I think this kind of visa would allow people to move to the US to start a company, on equal footing with "equally hard-working, economy-growing, business-founding citizens".
- teacup50 13y agoIt's right there in the article. He's requesting that the government grant to YC: 1) An allotment of visas. 2) Control over the allocation of those visas ... possibly to be extended to other venture capital firms (nobody else, of course, and certainly nobody self-funding a company with capital equivalent to that which YC provides). He's happy for YC to be the only beta tester for now, though.
- ahomescu1 13y agoHow does this give special privileges to the recipients of those visas?
- namenotrequired 13y agoNo, they're saying it gives special privilege to YC.