"Building a startup is like Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down"
@reidhoffman
So here is what i have to ask, how can ethics/being fair be your priority while falling of a cliff? Imo this analogy is normalising the lack ethics in startups
cc @paulg
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Without regulation commerce is effective at rewarding unscrupulous behavior beyond the "relief" of reducing stress - "move fast and break things" is also not a popularized pillar of child rearing/marriage and unconditional love is not a central ethic of entrepreneurship
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I don't think people assume it's merely extreme stress that causes people to cut ethical corners, but perhaps time pressure stress plus a profit motive in the startup context? Still, skepticism of that seems warranted
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Better analogy: "congratulations on having a kid, don't bribe the Ivy Leagues to get them in". Feeding your kid sawdust is bad for the kid that you're motivated to help. Cheating in your startup is a risky play but people mostly do it because they think it'll help their startup.
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I think the ethics do slide, just in favor of the child. “Yes I shouldn’t be working to build FR tech to suppress minorities, but I have a child to feed and take care of”. It’s what ethics are sacrificed to keep the startup going (see: Theranos, Fyre festival).
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Some subset of people will rationalize and do terrible things just so they don’t lose their job.
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