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If you want to become rich and powerful you’re part of the problem.
The problem isn’t that some other people are rich and powerful and you’re not. The problem is we have a system where some people are rich and powerful while others are denied even basic human dignity.
@aral in general I agree but I don't think it's shameful to want to become rich and/or powerful in a system where doing so is literally the only way to have any security.
Or, as wise men are known to have said: Don't hate the player, hate the game
@etherdiver Which is odd because the game wouldn’t exist if everyone refused to play it. Playing the game is how you perpetuate the game. Without the player, there is no game.
@aral no offense but that is fantastically naive. We already have a situation where the vast majority isn't trying (in any realistic or meaningful way) to become rich and yet the situation persists. In other words, it only takes a tiny fraction of players to make the game inescapable, so how does one fix that, in concrete terms? (I. E. The platitudes are nice but HOW?)
I'd love to know what your idea would look like in concrete terms.
@etherdiver I suspect Aral's point, is that the game wouldn't exist if the Adobes and Facebooks and Googles and Amazons weren't actively buying-out all their competitors, and seeking growth at a cancerous rate. Which requires their workers enabling them, as much as the executives moving the actual game pieces on the game board. There is balance.
IMHO the "how" is a balance of education and regulation. Both of which we've neglected for +50yrs in the US, so I suspect it may be too late. @aral
@etherdiver @aral The fiduciary realities of being a public corporation are also a huge problem; the legal requirement to run one's business to enrich shareholders at all costs. THAT is why corporations do huge layoffs, absorb new competitors; and the way public markets in the US work, promote that kind of bloodthirsty competition, over cooperation and value to society. Strict Communism and strict Capitalism are failures, but there could be balance.
@etherdiver @aral Doesn't matter what may or may not be reality; that is what VCs and activist board leaders advocate in court, thus its embedded as a cultural value.