[bambax]

> The proper ambition for a tech entrepreneur

> NOBODY has any standing to tell me what my "proper ambition is."

Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being; I think the debate is about the meaning of words.

If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").

[mindcrime]

Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being;

But the author of TFA did. He made a blanket assertion about what the "proper ambition of a tech entrepreneur" ought to be.

If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").

I agree, 100%. But I don't see how that's even remotely analogous to the point about the author of TFA mandating what a tech entrepreneur's ambition ought to be.