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Re:Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox emp... by therealcamino on Thursday January 25, 2024 @09:10PM (#39138162)
"You listed one career choice and agriculture is actually the easiest industry. #2 lowest failure rate in 1 year, #1 lowest after 5 and after 10 years [1]. What you thought was fucking hard is objectively not compared to every other industry from BLS data. "

You are pretty clearly defining "hard" differently than the poster you're responding to, as somehow being related only to the chance of a venture failing. But obviously that's not what "hard" means when the other examples include being a prisoner of war.

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Re:Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox emp... by exclusiv on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:14PM (#39179928)
That's exactly right and my point. The person I'm replying to is the one that used an irrelevant definition.

The context of the entire discussion was NOT for the parent to decide to apply for jobs or become a prisoner of war.

It was to work for the man or do a startup. And building a successful startup is fucking hard.

Furthermore, nobody in SV is using the definition that the parent is irate about when they say building a startup is hard. They're using the one I've outlined.

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