Comment by wavemode
42 minutes ago
None of what pg writes here is factually wrong per se, but he is obviously making a bigger deal out of a lot of these things than they really are (that is, he was obviously writing this to convince more people to start and join startups - hopefully at YC).
Some people (most people?) are perfectly happy with just working a stable job within a giant corporation. Either because they are capable of still finding fulfillment from work despite not having so much control (the kind of control that people who start businesses tend to crave), and/or because they find their fulfillment outside of work entirely.
In the decade I have been reading pg, my opinion of him is that he is like Nietzsche, or Ayn Rand or Hayek or Scott Alexander: catnip for "free thinkers", a ready-made meal for people who crave thinking different; but ultimately fairly vacuous competed to the hype. Making grandiose claims out of the flimsiest of observations that fail at the slightest contact with reality, and only good at motivated reasoning.
Modern-day sophistry.