Both can be true. What if Jensen is a guy who did bad things and Nvidia triggers a recession because it loses its central status on AI?

I never said there wouldn't be consequences to the economy. I said it's crazy to put up with such bad behavior to spare the economy.

The economy is everything. Ask Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

We need better markets and recessions are the cost of cleaning markets up, unfortunately.

If a single person was keeping the market from a recession, then that itself is the issue, not the removal of that person.

not necessarily. One athlete's performance can be the difference between a team winning and losing. One general can make the difference between winning and losing a war. No risk also comes with the downside of no reward, artificially constraining high achievers so we dont become too reliant on them just means everyone is equally low achieving

Trillions of investment across people's retirement accounts being vulnerable to one heart attack, stroke, or car accident isn't resilient.

Totally agree. And that's late-stage capitalism for you. For a site named "hacker news" the hacker spirit is noticeably absent here. Instead you have simps for billionaires.

The thing to remember every time you see the orange, so you don't forget, is that you are posting on the promotional website of a multibillion-dollar private equity firm.

This is of course true that YC provides this platform but, tapping in to my religious upbringing, it's a bit like confusing a church for the building it's in. Ycombinator owns the building that the community meets in, but the community is bigger than the landlord. The landlord can set some rules and influence what happens in the building, but if they impose too much on the community it will find a different building to meet in.

If anything Jensen Huang is the exact embodiment of the hacker spirit. An engineer who singlehandedly created one of the most valuable companies on earth by creating the chips that AI runs on.

I dont get how you can talk about the "hacker spirit" but then talk about "late-stage capitalism" (essentially the flat-earthism of economy) and tech founders.

What are you smoking?

> An engineer who singlehandedly created one of the most valuable companies on earth

Nvidia has 42k employees.

Nvidia chips are not the only chips AI runs on. Google for example runs everything on their own TPU's.

I don't know how you can talk so much out of your ass. Simping for billionaires is not "hacker spirit".

How many employees did it start with?

3 employees. That was 33 years ago. If you seriously think he is solely responsible for nvidia’s success I am willing to bet that you also voted for Trump.

You would be wrong but way to live up to the stereotype.

Also, solely, no. Majorly, is obvious from the history.

> I dont get how you can talk about the "hacker spirit" but then talk about "late-stage capitalism" (essentially the flat-earthism of economy) and tech founders.

Can you elaborate on why you think not a single aspect of late stage capitalism is true in any capacity, like flat-earthism?

> This slavish devotion to shareholder value above all else is pretty gross.

Anti-capitalists appealing to bourgeoisie values in their zeal to destroy a capitalist icon is pretty freakin' rich.

The comments in these threads are somewhat sickening. That many commenters here see no problem with his behavior is troubling.

Hero worshippers.

Welcome to HackerNews!

Par for the course on HN, unfortunately. I once thought the stereotypes about "tech bros" were overblown, but HN users seem dedicated to proving them right. Something's gone wrong if you're making comments complaining about how ethics don't matter at all in life and money is the only thing to ever be considered.