I see it as "doing what you know" keeps one comfortable, less anxious, and more active in its discussion.
If all you know are references to pop culture from a bygone era, however, you're going to be really limited.
This comes up a lot in discourse among older and younger generations: kids should just get a job (because in my day they were all over and paid well), or not realizing college tuition has skyrocketed. People are locked into the era they were most active in participating in.
Some people like to sit and ogle others creations; their novels, films, code, etc. All those neckbeards and "critics" who are simply consuming others creations, and being annoyed by things they don't like, without dipping real toe in themselves.
IMO, forcing people to trade, and filling their lives with shallow knowledge like the new Ian Fleming book, is the problem.
I'd rather our cultures move to protecting one's freedom to create, both experience in their mind and in the physical world. We tend to favor protecting trade, which generally means people are forced to create then trade it away. Why should forced trade be something we care to protect? Seems ripe for exploitation.
If you're busy trading to survive, you're not creating. You get stuck in 1959 when you were most actively trading and watching the world. But you end up with nothing of your own. You've been trading for others.
Oh please. There's a economic framework here that gave him a huge leg up. And the company wasn't built overnight by himself. How hard is it to prop yourself up on stimulants and push other people to achieve your goals?
I've worked alongside CEOs like this. They're not doing anything that's key to the process. They're just a blowhard personality everyone respects out of fear.
It's required the same old story: exploitation of people with less. In this case drivers who have little leverage to negotiate. "You'll be paid what our secret algorithm says is the proper rate and like it!."
This isn't some miracle. It's "more capitalism". The hero worship in this thread is creepy.
All on his own, too, yeah? No one else had a hand in it.
"You'll earn what our algorithm says is the appropriate rate."
He basically abused people's need to eat and put a roof over their head. It's more neoliberal capitalism. How incredible!
I'm so glad this guy in SV is fixing problems in my town! In whatever way he decides is appropriate! I fear that when he dies we'll not have a hero knight to come along and save us from the oppression that is taxi service!
Societies oppressors have been defeated!
It's one thing to call people out for straight up nonsense. It's another to peddle nonsense in its place.
If all you know are references to pop culture from a bygone era, however, you're going to be really limited.
This comes up a lot in discourse among older and younger generations: kids should just get a job (because in my day they were all over and paid well), or not realizing college tuition has skyrocketed. People are locked into the era they were most active in participating in.
Some people like to sit and ogle others creations; their novels, films, code, etc. All those neckbeards and "critics" who are simply consuming others creations, and being annoyed by things they don't like, without dipping real toe in themselves.
IMO, forcing people to trade, and filling their lives with shallow knowledge like the new Ian Fleming book, is the problem.
I'd rather our cultures move to protecting one's freedom to create, both experience in their mind and in the physical world. We tend to favor protecting trade, which generally means people are forced to create then trade it away. Why should forced trade be something we care to protect? Seems ripe for exploitation.
If you're busy trading to survive, you're not creating. You get stuck in 1959 when you were most actively trading and watching the world. But you end up with nothing of your own. You've been trading for others.