I sold out, took a high paying job. I pay interns to write articles and finance a charity.
I spend my evenings writing an app(that I hope makes billions). I can only imagine how many people my charity will teach healthy, low cost food skills if I had millions at my disposal.
Its kinda awful, but if I dont do it, I dont think anyone is going to teach kids how to cook low cost foods.
Personally, I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than solutions. Perhaps I'm just not good at whatever skills it takes to be rich and an effective altruist. But I'm pretty good at helping people with money decide how to spend it solving problems I care about. Now I make enough to pay other people to handle things I'm bad at, while enabling me to pursue my goals. But not more.
I don't have anything against people who pursue personal wealth in order to do social good. That's admirable. But to suggest that it's the only way to so social good (which you didn't do, but grandparent did) is just wrong.
Can you explain this further? I'm in my 20s, have over 6 figure income, and I'm curious what problems you ran into.
No, that's why I commented about how it was possible the community has diverged greatly from the incubator. I don't know what the overall principles of the majority of commenters/founders are, but I think the fact that the quote is (still) the first/most upvoted response in this thread hints that it's probably not an abnormal view of the community.
HN is about denominators. We all want to get rich. Some of us are willing to work, some of us are willing to hustle, etc.
The ideals of YC don't correspond to Internet commenters. Hell, half of the comments here probably don't even correspond to the true intent of the author's opinion.
Disclaimer: I'm just some moron on the Internet. No need to wax philosophical over Internet comments.