Maybe because of this human tendency to mess with and f*k up anything that works well and should be left alone.

looks like lapcat is a bot.

Another piece that tries to promote the idea that "following your dreams is dangerous" and that success has to do with privilege and not really with hard work. Beware of all these political ideologues trying to convince you that you are a born loser and there's nothing you can do about it.

That's orthogonal to the idea of the piece.

Success can come from working hard at something. Whether you're comfortable working hard at something depends on the risk of doing so.

Lebron James works hard, spends all day getting better at basketball. He also has a cooking staff, training staff, and house keepers.

If I took the same amount of time playing basketball, the same effort, I'd be broke and homeless.

If I come from money, sure I can spend all day working on the nuances of my startup, to the exclusion of all else. My ability to exist is taken care of.

What does "come from money" mean to you?

E.g. is a 26 year old still living with parents (firefighter and nurse) with no seed capital but all living expenses covered "coming from money"?

You're trying to be reductionist, but I'll bite.

That is a living situation which would reduce the risk of going of and starting a startup. That person would not have to worry about working and splitting effort and could totally immerse themselves in their startup endeavors.

However, the scope of money the article is talking about (and that we often see in the founder class), no that would not qualify as coming from money.

Coming from money is not just about the reduction of risk, but also the connections formed by having money.

I'm not trying to be reductionist, I'm trying to nail down a precise shared meaning of the terms that our conversation depends on.

I have seen many founders who come from ivy league, with millions in family seed capital and extensive networks with introductions and connections squander them because they don't prioritize what is most important: they don't embrace uncertainty, discomfort, and struggle. They don't lean into bad news. They don't position themselves as servants to the customer.

I just don't buy that these advantages of reduction of risk are the most important variable in the equation. Ive seen them first hand hinder success as much as they enable it. And they definitely do not gatekeep it.

So if "coming from money" means seed capital and family connections then I stand by my point.

But if "coming from money" means living with parents or spouse who can cover basic living expenses with a frugal lifestyle while the founder focuses on building a business, then with that definition I would have to admin it has a big positive impact.

I guess the crux of my argument here is that founder actions matter an order of magnitude more than seed capital or family connections.

This is a misinterpretation of the article and perhaps more of an indication of your own political ideology. Here's the same author with a different article: "A UBI would free Americans to shift from scarcity to abundance mode, which would enable more people to take risks and engage in a greater, more expansive vision for their future. Yang’s freedom dividend would give Americans greater agency to leave codependent relationships, professional or otherwise, and operate as the CEO or entrepreneur of their own lives." https://qz.com/1687957/the-case-for-andrew-yangs-ubi-plan

They want you depending on megacorporations or, even better, the government.

> I don't remember

I’m not interested in what you “remember”. I’m interested in facts.

Everything I mentioned is 100% fact, they're just not the facts you're interested in.

Now do 'actually'.

Only when they incite to commit a crime.

So that's different from Patriotic, Constitutional conservative view points! Thanks for explaining!

It is a mistake to think of different religions as if they were different teams of the same sport.

I don't think it's a mistake with regard to the Abrahamic faiths, each of which purports to worship the same God as the others, but also considers the other faiths heretical.

Over 1 million babies killed by abortion every year. Thousands of sexual mutilations on teens every year in "sex reassignment" surgeries. But the MAGAs are the death cult. Sure.

They're not "babies" until they're born, so that would be exactly zero babies killed by abortion.

As far as "sexual mutilation" goes, I'm more concerned about circumcision as the participants have no say in the matter whereas gender reassignment is something that the participant desires.

Incident Response is like Project Management: you have a long list of processes with acronyms and definitions that you are supposed to follow step by step if something happens. Oh, and the process can only be directed by someone certified to do it. You spend a lot of time and energy just to make sure you fill up all the blanks in the process —playing with the tool when you should be fixing the thing.

I once helped my math-hating niece with math. I was eager to go through her homework and show her how wonderful math is. Her homework: How do you call the curve that intersects this figure in this way? How do you call the angle that is shown in the other figure? ...etc. I said, "Is this a math class or an English class? Who gives a s*t about how a curve is named?" It turned out her math class was all like this. This is what she is being taught that mathematics is. I would hate it with a passion too if I had been taught that way.