This should really be "8 reasons to turn down that startup job as your first job" as most of the bullet points are really only geared towards someone in or leaving college. This should be obvious from the website's name but without context it took me a minute before I realized.
That being said the #7 point of "The world needs fixing, not disrupting" seems to lose sight of what disruption really is and conflates it with simply taking advantage of people.
Disruption fixes things. In fact I think one could easily argue that disruption fixes things far more effectively than anything else. Telling someone to go find "real problems to solve" is simply useless. I don't understand the point of trying to make the "service economy" a place "Where entitled white boys figure out how to replicate their private school dorm experience for life".
Sure there are issues in this area with SOME start-ups but going right into calling it a race issue without providing anything useful just screams useless rant.
Just drop #7, rename to 7 reasons and update the HN title to make it more obvious of the target demographic. Just my thoughts.
That being said the #7 point of "The world needs fixing, not disrupting" seems to lose sight of what disruption really is and conflates it with simply taking advantage of people.
Disruption fixes things. In fact I think one could easily argue that disruption fixes things far more effectively than anything else. Telling someone to go find "real problems to solve" is simply useless. I don't understand the point of trying to make the "service economy" a place "Where entitled white boys figure out how to replicate their private school dorm experience for life".
Sure there are issues in this area with SOME start-ups but going right into calling it a race issue without providing anything useful just screams useless rant.
Just drop #7, rename to 7 reasons and update the HN title to make it more obvious of the target demographic. Just my thoughts.