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When linking on Twitter to something you've written that could be controversial, give people as little to engage with in the tweet itself as possible. Then (a) they'll have to actually read at least some of it before responding, and (b) you don't give them much to quote-tweet.

I read it and did the math.https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1366571851636473859 …

If decreasing the returns from starting a startup never decreases people's interest in doing it, you can prove by induction that you can confiscate all the returns without decreasing their interest.

Whereas YC got a big spike in applications after The Social Network came out, and the reason that movie even got made was that this young guy becoming super rich made for an exciting story.

But do you actually think the priority of the government should be maximizing the number of startups over anything else? Clearly these things exist on a spectrum and we can talk about which variables to tweak without pretending anybody wants to take 100% of returns.