What are those unintended consequences of progressive goals that he can't say out loud? I assume you're an independent thinker who can spell them out for us.

AB 5 in California is the best example I can think of. It would have been a disaster for workers in most if not all affected businesses; it had to start with dozens of exemptions, and AB 2257 a few months ago added a dozen more. But because AB 5 was written towards the well-meaning progressive goal of good pay and benefits for workers, it's most likely going to stay there, and "lobby the legislature for an AB 5 exemption" will just become part of the cost for building a new industry sector in California.

I don't claim to be an independent thinker. That sounds like a false dichotomy to me. The consequence would be that the Twitter mobs would go after YC and YC companies asking them to cut ties with PG

If that's true then this essay is hilarious. Independent thinkers are the ones adhering to the capitalist status quo rather than the people trying to challenge it?

Sounds backwards.

It’s the libertarian- particularly Objectivist- myth that valorizes the (capitalist) individual.

If it only exists on Twitter, but not in the real world, then why is it worth addressing or expending emotional energy or essays on?

> There is a large socialist/anti-capitalist/woke movement on Twitter and a somewhat in the real world as well.