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It happens to be the same self-importance that I see driving almost every entrepreneur in the tech sector. Everyone speaks of "changing the world" and the impor
by williamcotton 12y ago
It happens to be the same self-importance that I see driving almost every entrepreneur in the tech sector. Everyone speaks of "changing the world" and the importance of individual innovation. Very rarely do people in Silicon Valley take the time to think about the effects of their creations. Getting rich is also the process of extracting wealth from others and people seem to forget that. The blind faith that a "rising tide lifts all boats" is an ideology that deserves heavy scrutiny.
My question for you is, would it have been a better talking point if I made it very clear that I'm somehow different and "better" than the tech culture I see around me? Or would the finger-pointing be less successful than a message that inculpates myself in to the tragedy?
- rhapsodic 12y agoWow, you must be brilliant, somehow "better" than the rest of the people in Silicon Valley, to be able to know their very thoughts, and what deep, important things that they "very rarely... take the time to think about." It truly is a "tragedy" that they're not thinking about all of us foot-shufflers out here in the larger world who are "walking in circles just to be their customers." I don't know if I'll be able to bear the grief...