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There’s the high minded poetry again. He came from a wealthy nation and was boosted by people who had profited from the happenstance they grew up in a nation empowered by lack of industrial base around the post war world.

Yeah I’m tired of the carving up based upon some arbitrary line in the sand or high minded poetry.

We’re all of the same species on the same planet. Smart people do not give rise to reality itself. I’d argue most smart people had social network access most do not and grew up free to explore human nature rather than have to grind to eat.

Bill Gates’ father was a founding partner of huge law firm, Musk’s family gem mine is well known. Bezos had dozens with tens of thousands just lying around to buy into his vision. Trump got a meager 1 million kick start.

Nepotism and PR are what made so many.

None of these people have satisfied the burden of proof they’re that special and were not merely empowered by a post-war reality the US economy had nowhere to go but up as all other nations were smoking craters.

You make top earners sound like entitled children who cannot reason around the big picture impact to their community.

Top earners at software companies should be heavily de-valued. Being so specialized as to be useless if that specialization ceased to be validated by economy policy of shoveling cheap money at tech companies to titillate the public is not so special. It’s intentional attempt at agency control.

Yeh. The entire org has to rethink what progress means with such cuts and that takes time, which impacts deadlines.

We’re far too controlled by the short term anxiety of investors. Financiers need to learn more about how the physical world works and not just fetishize abstract math conveniently labeled in politically correct tradition.

The burden should be on finance to prove its value and not be allowed to leverage recent history when the market could only go up as the post-WW2 world was a crater. Other countries have caught up and don’t have to play by the US’s old rules. Why should the next generation within the US? People who lucked into winning have an extraordinary burden of proof their success wasn’t just being born in a time-place.

It certainly challenges the genius tech CEO story when they’re all just copy-pasting each other.

None of the software CEOs are charting a net new course for tech manufacture; they’re just managing data center footprint that host vapid content.

The older crowd is aging away and the younger crowd that grew up with a Gameboy in their face, not WSJ, can start making their own content with ML (like I am).

The emotional temple that is social media is not interesting to the next generation as they know how to Docker pull Twitter and the like into existence. It’s a solved problem from an engineering perspective. We’re bored serving politically correct capitalist memes.