Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.

“I talk to young founders these days and for them, there’s no other world than the Trump world. I ask them what inspired them to go into tech and they say they read Marc Andreessen’s manifesto, they read Peter Thiel’s books, and I think, “Oh, your brain’s cooked.” They come in pre-pickled. But everyone else who could have told an alternate narrative has been hounded out of the industry.”

  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I lost interest here

    We believe in Milton Friedman’s observation that human wants and needs are infinite.

    We believe markets also increase societal well being by generating work in which people can productively engage. We believe a Universal Basic Income would turn people into zoo animals to be farmed by the state. Man was not meant to be farmed; man was meant to be useful, to be productive, to be proud.

    We believe technological change, far from reducing the need for human work, increases it, by broadening the scope of what humans can productively do.

    We believe that since human wants and needs are infinite, economic demand is infinite, and job growth can continue forever

    If human wants and needs are infinite, why do they turn off when our basic needs are met?

    This reads like a “I am so smart” post.