I don't agree with Palmer much, but he loves America and wants the best for it.
Though YC started well, it has since degraded startup culture and turned founding into a short-term, status-driven, sexist boys' club, full of get-rich-quick grifters, and now PG has left the country that made him so he'll never have to reckon with what he created.
Of course he would say this because he won't reckon with the idea that there's more to life than making number go up, all your silly morals or fealties are second to almighty "growth". He's too successful to ever have to think about it.
Using words like “traitor” so casually, and now saying that pg is “gone” (https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2094639434436427911)...
From my European perspective, Luckey just comes across as an anti-democratic Trumpist. I don’t understand why pg even engages with people like that.
> even if they are "the most qualified"
Well are they or aren't they?
Is he wrong?
PaulG’s question “why did you give these jobs to foreigners” is childish.
No, I think he is right.
You could have picked a headline: ”Palmer Luckey takes on Paul Graham who questions hiring foreigners”
You're right, I changed it a little.
I don't agree with Palmer much, but he loves America and wants the best for it.
Though YC started well, it has since degraded startup culture and turned founding into a short-term, status-driven, sexist boys' club, full of get-rich-quick grifters, and now PG has left the country that made him so he'll never have to reckon with what he created.
Of course he would say this because he won't reckon with the idea that there's more to life than making number go up, all your silly morals or fealties are second to almighty "growth". He's too successful to ever have to think about it.