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by ajkirwin
6393 days ago
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I've never read such a crock of shit since the last time I read something like this. I'm sorry, because we don't subscribe to the model of "Grab all you can and fuck the other guy", somehow we're going to be useless entrepreneurs and crap at starting The Business of Tomorrow? Fuck you, sir, and the boat you sailed in on. I and many others like me, have a great drive, but not for our own self-gratification, but for the betterment of many and I think that's a far greater thing than wanting to create the next IBM or Wells Fargo or whatever the hell. |
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Drive rooted in self-interest and self-gratification isn't a universal evil. The problem really is the broken philosophy that screwing over the other guy is the only high odds way to gain. It only works until all the potential gains from what we've already created are realized. At that point, supply and/or demand dry up, and we end up in big trouble economically. People who push for this describe economics as a zero-sum game. They say fuck their neighbor because the only way to acquire wealth is to steal some of his/hers. They neglect to account for the decay term caused by the decrease value in what has already been made; they assume scarcity is a constant, or attempt to make it artificially so. They also neglect to account for the growth term, which is new things being introduced into the market, adding to the overall wealth of what we've created. Someone driven by self-interest would do better to increase this growth term, but that tends to be hard work and the short-term payoff, if that's what they need to stay motivated, is rarely there.