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OMFG this reads exactly like some communist screed with one difference. If you own a single laptop you own 100% of the means of production, you do not NEED LP

OMFG this reads exactly like some communist screed with one difference. If you own a single laptop you own 100% of the means of production, you do not NEED LP's, VC's, Angels, or a paycheck. If you want to keep 100% of it, then go, code up your own damn site like any number of people here did, don't take a dime from anyone and go produce some value and keep all of it. There are basically zero costs involved with launching a web startup. do it then. you're acting like this is the nineteenth century and you're working in some factory owned by a VC. you own the tools. what exactly are you missing? Go build something and put it up. right now. tonight. go go go go go go.

pastProlog 12y ago
> this reads exactly like some communist screed Well, if the idea that people who work and create wealth should keep the wealth they create is a "communist" idea, then so be it.
- logicallee 12y ago
  <sarc> you have a moral duty to quit your job and code a site you own 100% of, using your laptop which is the means of production. how can you support the unjust social structure you're a part of today? The people working in your office as support staff are letting you generate value neither you nor they keep. You have a moral duty to resign today and code a site on your own laptop, from home, owning and keeping 100% of the wealth/value. or to update your philosophy to be practical, sane, and not hypocritical. either way you cannot continue as you have written. it is unjust. </sarc> In case it isn't obvious I say this tongue-in-cheek, and expect you to update your philosophy and not your work conditions. but the choice is yours. Today, you are the factory owner. Go home and turn it on. or stop complaining. here HN literally supports both options.