[the_cat_kittles]

not sure if you are having a laugh, but it made me think of something: i dont understand the thinking that says "entrepreneurs are good" prima facie. it matters what kind of businesses they start. its so weird how we ignore this. if most entrepreneurs start predatory payday loan companies, we wouldn't want that. i guess this is obvious, but sometimes i wonder about the balance of "entrepreneurs". i guess this similar to a critique i have with how people use money as the sole metric of success. its the same thing! it matters what you did! in both cases, i think the mistake is using a more general measure in place of more specific ones. specific should always dominate general.

[Aron]

People generally don't give money away for nothing, and spend it carefully, so when someone figures out how to get a lot of people to pay them for something, I figure that's pretty high evidence they've done something helpful. Certainly exceptions exist.