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Re:Economic Inequality by fweespeech on Saturday January 02, 2016 @02:10PM (#10827404)
> He is defending what he is doing and what Y-combinator has been doing. One of the most important roles of a leader is to create vision -- build a story that explains and interprets reality based on it.

Defending against a strawman isn't really defending against anything but rather perpetuating the delusion that the strawman is real.

It isn't helpful or productive.

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Re:Economic Inequality by rdtsc on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:44PM (#10829084)
> Defending against a strawman

That is what I was saying too. I wasn't being direct though.

Yes he is defending against a strawman to bolster his position and to justify and bring context to a certain narrative that revoles around startups. It makes sense to create these PR stories so to speak, masked as simple blog posts, to provide conext and interpretation for those who follow him.

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Re:Economic Inequality by fweespeech on Saturday January 02, 2016 @08:53PM (#10829117)
Yeah but perpetuating a clear delusion isn't healthy for any group of people.
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Re:Economic Inequality by rdtsc on Saturday January 02, 2016 @09:30PM (#10829226)
Yeah it is a delusion. In general startup environment thrives on and needs delusions to operate. They are part of the deal so speak.

I think in this case there was a need to have an explanation of how start world relates to income inequality. At some point someone is going to confront some YC company founders after they talked about they want to save the world and make it a better palce etc etc, about "so what do you think about income inequality" and the idea is they'll pull the the gosspel -- pg essay ;-) and quote from the book of Econ chapter 2 verse 15.

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