Paul Graham is the skating coach himself, as from 6000 startups financed by y combinator quite a few were unicorns. it is olympian level, but it there is a system to it.
replyI'm well aware of who pg is.
replyI'm suggesting - and I think the politician was also clearly suggesting - that a certain point of scale it ceases to really be "earning" anymore.
You’re suggesting that selling others’ talent isn’t legitimate “earning”? Why?
replyI'm saying there's a difference between earning and benefiting from.
replyYou can earn by deploying your own labor to facilitate transactions between other laborers, such as by running a job fair, that's completely legitimate, good, and creates value. You can't just take 90% of someone's wages, or rather, you can, and many people do, but it's theft.
replyBecause it's not your labor to sell and if you take part of the proceeds for yourself, that's theft.
replyBecause they believe in the Marxist labor theory of value, where apparently it's theft if someone else uses your labor to make something more than you could make yourself, not understanding the fact that that's not how labor markets and total human collaboration works to make something more than the sum of individuals.
replySelling others labor isn't legitimate earning when you get a higher share of the labors value than the laborer themselves.
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