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Tragic that we all inevitably grow up to replace the old outdated system we grew up rebelling, nee disrupting, against.

Hunter S. Thompson said something profound and unique to his position. He remarked his biggest fear, and the man knows a thing or two about fear, was waking up to realization that the same people he went to high school with ended up running the show.

Here we are.

I'm at the same age now as when Marc grew out Netscape. His path shaped how I walked my path. Yet he's going to some place that I no longer understand. Maybe he sees it better, maybe he sees it differently, but jeez louise, what is going on?

The new boss isn't better than the old boss. And just you wait until my friends become bosses.



In the end, how much of tech was just about a few guys aggrandizing themselves, not actually benefiting others? From my viewpoint, an enormous amount.

Disruptive, my ass. These guys are chasing the same stupid status symbols that everyone else is. They are not the ubermensch that society holds them up to be, just people who finally Made It (tm).

Motives are exactly why the outcome will be just as rotten as before.


It's why Ayn Rand is so popular.


Nobody outside Silicon Valley ever thought these people were Ubermenschen.


"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." - Kurt Vonnegut

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/k/kurtvonneg103944....


Paul Graham is now the man.




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