I’m talking about Thiel as an avatar if this — he gets more money, more power, more access, and you think rational people say “I’m afraid that fate will befall me!”?
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Replying to @anildash @peterpham and
I’m telling you as someone who was in YC as that was happening that I saw and talked to a half dozen people who silenced themselves completely because they aren’t rich or powerful enough to withstand something similar happening to them. This isn’t hypothetical.
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Replying to @AustenAllred @peterpham and
What were the beliefs they felt they couldn’t articulate? (Being clear, these may or may not be your own.)
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Replying to @anildash @peterpham and
Off the top of my head: the proper role of the FDA, opinions on tax reform, immigration law and H1Bs, healthcare, actions taken by the CFPB, how to treat biomed samples of transgender people in a data set, and probably 100x more that I don’t know about.
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Replying to @AustenAllred
Well, I’d say these people are pretty inarticulate. I’m obviously a progressive but can construct a counterargument on any of these in 10 minutes. But (e.g.) “some people should die from treatable disease because they are poor” is always gonna engender criticism.
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Replying to @anildash
You’d say people are inarticulate because they fear repurcussions of speaking out? That’s an incredibly arrogant thing to say
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Replying to @AustenAllred
Maybe. But aren’t these guys saying they’re at YC on the merits of their skills and talents being extraordinary?
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Replying to @anildash
I’m not sure they’re saying that, but if these guys and gals are inarticulate than I don’t know many people anywhere qualify as articulate
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Replying to @AustenAllred
So I guess it boils down to substance. “We should limit H1Bs in favor of retraining unemployed domestic workers” might get disagreement, but “build the wall!” will get vociferous pushback. That seems reasonable?
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Replying to @anildash
Sure. Though there may be rational and reasonable reasons to build a wall, I just can’t think of any so I’m not going to pretend and defend that for argument sake. Healthcare is an interesting one though, because there are trade offs no matter what you do
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Anyway, gonna go read and spend time with the fam. Enjoy your day, thanks for the discussion, and exercise caution when knowingly silencing someone ;)
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