If you think profit is the only reason people set out to run companies, then you’re the one who is delusional.
If you take VC money, you play by their rules. Its not nihilistic to be realistic about the context of things.
And I appreciate your optimism, even if I consider it to be delusional. But to me that kind of ‘inactive hope’ is equivalent to what you accused me of doing (‘curl up and die’).
Proceeding through this world on hopes and prayers that a system set up to do anything but exploit and destroy will do anything but that is deeply problematic and contributes significantly to the issues. Its a kind of toxic positivity that gives people the illusion that they are doing something when they aren’t. I don’t have time for that.
We’re discussing this on a federated platform for fucks sake, which part of how I’m going about living my life that you can see, suggested to you that all I do is cross my fingers and pray that the status quo changes?
Is commenting on these things for others to read mutually exclusive with actually doing something about them?
If you don’t have time for changing minds, then you’re the one giving up on the most powerful way to affect change.
Shifting popular opinion is literally prerequisite to ALL nation-scale change in modern mostly-democratic society.
If you take VC money, you play by their rules. Its not nihilistic to be realistic about the context of things.
And I appreciate your optimism, even if I consider it to be delusional. But to me that kind of ‘inactive hope’ is equivalent to what you accused me of doing (‘curl up and die’).
Proceeding through this world on hopes and prayers that a system set up to do anything but exploit and destroy will do anything but that is deeply problematic and contributes significantly to the issues. Its a kind of toxic positivity that gives people the illusion that they are doing something when they aren’t. I don’t have time for that.
Why are you assuming my hope is “inactive”?
We’re discussing this on a federated platform for fucks sake, which part of how I’m going about living my life that you can see, suggested to you that all I do is cross my fingers and pray that the status quo changes?
Is commenting on these things for others to read mutually exclusive with actually doing something about them?
If you don’t have time for changing minds, then you’re the one giving up on the most powerful way to affect change.
Shifting popular opinion is literally prerequisite to ALL nation-scale change in modern mostly-democratic society.