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The "anti-capitalism" is real, but at least all the people I've met are fine with "project which makes a product/service we sell", particularly if it's super di
by rdl 13y ago
The "anti-capitalism" is real, but at least all the people I've met are fine with "project which makes a product/service we sell", particularly if it's super disruptive -- more anti-corporate than purely anti-capitalist.
San Francisco was explicitly anti-capitalist for a long time as well; it's unclear to be if being somewhat anti-capitalist while being anti-corporate is actually bad, compared to being super capitalist and super stodgy/corporate/consensus/big-corp, like many other parts of Europe.
- rmoriz 13y agoIn the end a developer has to pay her or his rent and food. It's sad to see many hackers in berlin wasting their true skills in unpaid hobby work and sitting in some bozo-driven copycat startups from 9-5 coding in a crappy $language.
- rdl 13y agoI think what will help them is some great local examples of people doing awesome technical work and changing the world through it and getting paid, and local investors who can support that. Right now there is the bad example of the Samwers, and the good example of Soundcloud. Bitcoin and small hardware projects (and security) seem like the main areas where someone could easily do that. Music/club/youth related startups too I guess.
- rmoriz 13y agoFor sure the situation would improve very much when some successful "tech founders" are able to invest themselves into tech focussing startups. Currently, this is still a very rare case.