Re:Economic Inequality
by iandanforth on Saturday January 02, 2016 @01:38PM
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Because the self-made rich don't stop working. Because hugely productive people work on open source. Because hugely productive people work at non-profits. Because hugely productive, active, socially beneficial people spend their lives in poverty working for the benefit of others.
It's a bizarre mind that can simultaneously believe that you need huge rewards to motivate people AND know that 95% of startups fail.
Startup founders I know well (n=20) are intrinsically motivated and only superficially extrinsically motivated. They don't stop once they get "f-u" money. They do the same thing over again, with a nicer car.
Re:Economic Inequality
by pandaman on Saturday January 02, 2016 @01:43PM
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I am sorry, I don't see how it follows. Even if such people exists in statistically significant quantities, a lot of people don't work for free at all.
It's a bizarre mind that can simultaneously believe that you need huge rewards to motivate people AND know that 95% of startups fail.
Startup founders I know well (n=20) are intrinsically motivated and only superficially extrinsically motivated. They don't stop once they get "f-u" money. They do the same thing over again, with a nicer car.