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by csallen 3mo ago
Every time my mom comes to visit me, she insists on going to the store to buy things just like she always did. There are plenty of stores. In most cases, these brick-and-mortar stores have significantly fewer options than online stores, for
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by csallen 3mo ago
So you're evil if you make a tool that "can enable" other people to do evil stuff. I guess most software developers are evil. Anyone who makes silverware is evil. Etc. As I already pointed out above, your bar is going to be i
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by csallen 3mo ago
Every day, there are trillions of prices that are set by sellers, and either accepted or rejected or counter-offered by buyers. Of course, sellers want higher prices, and buyers want lower prices. There is no one person who can determine wh
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by csallen 3mo ago
Do you seriously believe the by limiting people's wealth, we'll solve problems like this? Humans used to have thousands of times less wealth than we do now, yet people still had power and influence, harems and slaves, cults and ga
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by csallen 3mo ago
> No, her argument is not that people have too much money, it's that the system allows for it. What's the difference? Either way, she's trying to change it so people can't have so much money. And why? To what end? H
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by csallen 3mo ago
Capping the ceiling would be a tremendous mistake. It would eliminate the "if" in your scenario. The same value in wealth would not be created. You would be massively disincentivizing people to stay here and innovate, and that i
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by csallen 3mo ago
Yeah, there's almost a religious belief nowadays that the world is worse, people are worse off, things are sliding downhill, etc. People are married to the idea and get upset at any evidence to the contrary. It's such a shame. It&
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by csallen 3mo ago
I disagree, and I've never seen any stats to support your belief that people getting screwed is the norm. But I've seen many, many stats of new startups minting millionaires.
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by csallen 3mo ago
And this wouldn't be happening if Apple didn't exist? This is a problem created by capitalist companies, not authoritarian communist governments?
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by csallen 3mo ago
I don't think it's a fallacy since AOC so clearly implies, if not outright states, that the reason people are poor in America is because people richer than them have too much money, and should have less. If that applies to them, w
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by csallen 3mo ago
> That's the whole moral and ethical difference. Paying them their market worth is the minimum. The entire argument is that when something is wildly successful, that success should be shared with everyone. Not necessarily equally,
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by csallen 3mo ago
My point exactly. Your grand slam-dunk evidence that all billionaires are unethical is that: 1. One started a healthcare company, and bad things happen in healthcare, and you aren't going to look into any more than that. 2. One is a ri
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by csallen 3mo ago
You can ask about all of these things during negotiations, and an increasingly large share of people do. I'm grateful for LLMs, because they're making people much better and more knowledgeable negotiators. Ultimately it's pos
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by csallen 3mo ago
In what way was she misrepresented? In what way is PG mocking her? I don't follow. She really does believe that you can't earn a billion dollars, and that there are no ethical billionaires. And that sentiment is echoed by many mil
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by csallen 3mo ago
Nitpick: There's no such thing as a "market with any regulation," because regulation is what creates markets in the first place, by making most unsavory forms of profit illegal, in order to incentivize people to innovate and
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by csallen 3mo ago
Thinking that it's fucked up to say that it's good to inspire people to strive is, itself, fucked up.
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by csallen 3mo ago
> Look at where y combinator founders come from. It’s 99% people from elite institutions Your comment and the one I'm replying to are so far removed from reality that I'm worried you know nothing about Y Combinator, elite ins
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by csallen 3mo ago
I don't disagree with you. I think there's an even argument along these lines that we don't really have free will, since our initial biology and environmental circumstances aren't within our control, and yet every subseq
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by csallen 3mo ago
Many of us aren't miserable, love our stuff, and love our music, friends, and hobbies! And I suspect many more would be in the same camp if they weren't being told so often that "everybody's miserable." When people
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by csallen 3mo ago
Yeah, I mean, when you put it that way, I don't disagree with you. I think it's a matter of perception. What's better or worse will always be subjective. And there will always be gaps in the market where people make genuine m
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by csallen 3mo ago
The most insane belief that people currently possess is that we should all be miserable, despite living in what is undoubtedly the best, most prosperous, safest, healthiest, and most abundant age of all of human history. It's a cult, a
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by csallen 3mo ago
I loved renting for many years and highly preferred it to buying. As do many of my friends. Frequent topic of conversation.
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by csallen 3mo ago
IH is doing well, but I stopped the podcast years ago. No plans to bring it back currently. Although it's certainly an exciting time for startups and the last few years of it would've been pretty nuts.
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by csallen 3mo ago
Go read the last paragraph of his essay. He's talking about becoming rich. He's not literally saying that billionaire is the only line that matches. Again, you're reading into this too literally. Do you genuinely think that P
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by csallen 3mo ago
Why do you expect outsized rewards without taking outsized risks? Companies don't start themselves.
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by csallen 3mo ago
No one's saying we roll the same dice at birth. That doesn't mean that people who are so desperate that they can't risk negotiating a job offer are 99.99% in that situation because of birth rather than decisions made subseque
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by csallen 3mo ago
> There’s no reason they couldn’t pay them a much bigger share... Why should they pay more than market worth? When you go shop at a store, do you pay double the price tag just because you can? No, you don't, because that would cos
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by csallen 3mo ago
1. You didn't answer the question. You said what they wouldn't be doing. What would they be doing that would be making them happier? 2. You didn't answer this question either. What specifically is stopping them from opting ou
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by csallen 3mo ago
Then go start your own company?
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by csallen 3mo ago
In my view, there is no such thing as free market capitalism without regulation. The only thing that could create anything resembling a "free market" in the first place is regulation. The whole point of the endeavor is to enact re

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