Confusion surrounding the "hard work is a classist illusion" debate, explained:
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1/ Pandering, unhelpful ‘work-life balance wisdom’ for technology startups met with 2/ Forceful push back from actually-successful person
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3/ “You’re not smarter than us, so you’ll have to work at least as hard as us to compete,” and who could/would deny this?
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4/ "Gasp!" Tech’s celebrity, pearl-clutching, ambulance chasers accuse successful folks in tech of privilege, declare hard work irrelevant
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6/ Enter ‘tech writers,’ and they’re not writing about tech (they almost never are) they’re writing about class
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7/ Debate evolves: now ostensibly about work-life balance in tech, but implicitly about poverty in general
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8/ If hard work makes successful ppl, what impoverishes the poor? Are we each responsible for what we have? ~ SCARY QUESTIONS HAPPENING ~
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9/ Broader, important questions for society cowardly obscured by MORE bad advice for startup founders. Everyone runs away.
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