In a group chat trying to guess how many millions of dollars a friend’s company is going to be acquired for. He’ll probably make more from that than all of my (or his) ancestors have, combined, ever. And he’s like 30. Do you ever just stop and think about how crazy this all is?
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Replying to @AustenAllred
The optimistic take is that this is, primarily, because people who are alive at this exact moment in time have more opportunity to create more wealth for more people than at any other time in history.
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Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred
My younger brother has, call it, 100,000 people who read his blog about writing comic book superhero novels. Mark Twain's bestselling book didn't hit 100k copies in his lifetime. Mark Twain. 100th or 1,000th best author who was a contemporary of his?
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Replying to @patio11 @AustenAllred
While I get your broader point about technology enabling tremendous value creation, I don't know this is the best example. Readership numbers are driven by there now existing radically more people with radically more free time. Seems a bit circuitous to measure value like that.
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I think that’s kind of the point
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