8/ It's false.
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19/ Languages have tons of fascinating features. One is that words take on tabboos, and so other words are used in their place, and then those words get some of the contamination (we've seen this with race etc in English, but it happens in other languages for other taboos)
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20/ So in hybrid SV culture, the urge to make money is front and center, but it is filthy and grotesque, and so must be sublimated. Founder can't say "I want to be a billionaire". He has to say that he wants to work with great people and empower teams to change the world.
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21/ And if you're FROM that culture, it all makes perfect sense. ...but if you're outside, it looks like so many epicycles of hypocrisy piled atop each other, and it's hilariously stupid, and everyone involved in it is a loser.
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24/ Sonya is part of that culture. She lives near it, and she's young, so she's been steeped in it all of her life. So she says things like thishttps://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1301945685852352513 …
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25/ Her complain: "Yet another example of shitting on someone's personal growth and accomplishments, " But the tweet ISN'T saying that the accomplishments and growth are bad. The tweet is saying that the guy is a braggart, crass, and his SV culture is cringey.
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27/ Paul Graham has an essay on the culture of certain cities, and I think it's Boston where he mentions that there are millionaires who drive dumpy cars, because it's crass to flaunt you wealth Who puts "scale myself" on a list of goals, checks it off, and then tells everyone?
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28/ It's marketing copy posing as 1970s EST / self improvement / eastern mysticism.
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29/ I don't see capitalists, VCs, or founders as "parasites", Chris. I see them as generating value.https://twitter.com/spiderfoods/status/1301946044041826304 …
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31/ so anyway, the core disagreement that Sonya and I have is that she sees VC Brags as crapping on the accomplishments, and I think that's bc she's a fish in water and can't see the culture, and I assert it's the CULTURE that is being mocked, not the accomplishments exeunt
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32/ Ron LaFlamme, yes. But also Gavin Belson's guru. So perfect. https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1301947636635906048 …
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33/ /shrug I believe in consenting adults, and I stand by the "Wilt Chamberlain" argument in Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia. I have seen no arguments that make me question that.https://twitter.com/spiderfoods/status/1301948087951294464 …
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34/ "capital" is just "tools, accumulated over time". I don't "forge an alliance" with a hammer, I use it. A factory doesn't "forge an alliance" with me, it hires me. /shrughttps://twitter.com/lbsasquatch/status/1301948117332484096 …
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35/ Here's another one Sonya criticizes. I think this is on-target mockery. What is Chetan praising? THE UNDERSTATED NATURE OF THE EXITS. UNDERSTATED!!!pic.twitter.com/IPrx0tIU4b
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36/ "I really appreciate the $12 billion dollar exit that Steve had when he sold his logistics integration company to pension funds. The understated nature of the IPO reminded me of Japanese cherry blossoms blown in the first hint of autumn's winds. So deft. So pure."
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37/ another one Sonya defends another one I also dislike It's 1960s California commune ego-less ness, where instead of bragging you ... brag about your co-founder (which basically is bragging about you and your ability).pic.twitter.com/ZRq3RcPNG1
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38/ It's the same energy as Scalzi congratulating all of the great new non-binary and trans authors that Tor are publishing, and their great new books, ...which come out at the same time as his latest, part of his $10 million contract with Tor, in stores everywhere!
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39/ Again, it's this dickless, neutered, wears-a-bow-tie-because-an-actual-tie-is-too-phallic-and-aggressive culture, where folks are afraid to brag about themselves, so ... brag about themselves via a transparent cut out.
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40/ "we're DiSruPtInG biochemistry!!!!1!" no, you're just doing massive amounts of amphetamines, nerdshttps://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1301975207855480838 …
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41/ ...and here's the female version of the exact same thinghttps://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1301613151381860357 …
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42/ A chick taking her shirt off (RADICAL TRANSPARENCY!) and pretending to open up to you (over video) while banking $100k/month is EXACTLY the model. Applause.
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44/ This hideous project is pure SV energy. Note the juxtaposition of the word "seriously" with giggling. Note the juxtaposition of the word "simple" with strange, non standard, sourced from just one vendor fuel brick.https://youtu.be/pK2tw3lFtAQ
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