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by codex
5000 days ago
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I believe celebritizing entrepreneurship is a good thing. Entrepreneurship is a noble calling that has high social value. To some extent I feel that PG's essays tend to celebritize entrepreneurship. However, I think this a bit of a conflict of interest, and can come off as predatory. The reason is that he makes more money the more (or more highly qualified) entrepreneurs he can convince to take up the cause. However, the odds of failure are still quite high. In essence, these essays convince more people to buy him lottery tickets paid for with their entrepreneurial sweat. The fact that the lottery tickets have shared payouts is of little consequence to the moral argument when the odds of a single ticket winning are so slim. The only real winner is the incubator, which holds hundreds if not thousands of tickets. To minimize the hazard, I would like to see the odds of failure emphasized more. |
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