[vitaminj]

"... with all the attached room for anti-capitalist hatred..."

In some ways, YC represents the purest form of the capitalist ideal - people risking their OWN money and resources to help develop a productive enterprise, and then reaping the rewards if it's successful (presumably the YC founders are risking their own money and their time with the startups they fund...).

I think most people reserve their anti-capitalist vitriol for things like hedge funds, where the managers of said funds can get insanely rich taking risks with other people's money.

I find the YC model very hard to hate.