[abakker]

To paraphrase in a marxist kind of way, I am pretty sure the delta between "to everybody according to their need, from everyone according to their ability" has never been greater. This may be kind of off topic, but while SV likes to talk about being a meritocracy, and corporate earnings and productivity for each engineer working here are staggering, the reality is that the tools SV is creating are not helping things enough. While FB and Google and Uber might be solving some interesting problems, I would tend to say that there are a lot of very talented people here whose talents could be better spent. While engineering is great, what about running for public office? It is clear those roles are not attracting the kind of people we actually want in them.

I see that as a symptom of how futile most public office has become. Maybe term-limits would help, maybe other things would. If we want to fix the problem though, I think the answer starts with the candidates, not just trying to re-engineer a system to persist in spite of all apparent efforts to subvert it. I guess we can all watch, though.

//kind of off topic, but I felt like this was the place to say it.