Comment by geofft
6 years ago
I don't disagree with you in theory, but when an article is suggesting that you should instead make $200M in equity by working for a venture capitalist - and not just any venture capitalist, Peter Thiel, the man who is sad about women's suffrage because it means unchecked libertarianism is less likely to be chosen by free elections - for spy firm Palantir?
Go work for a big tech company, it's far more ethical if you think capitalism is bad.
Also keep in mind that there simply isn't $200M to go around for every software engineer, let alone every human. These concentrated payoffs only come at the expense of others. It's not universal advice and it can't be.
> These concentrated payoffs only come at the expense of others
Capital creation is not zero sum. It's positive sum and makes us all better off. This idea that if one person succeeds, it's because he's stolen from someone else has led to immense misery in history.