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I wonder if the people who started AirBnB sat around thinking: “If we do this thing right, we’ll destroy countless neighborhoods worldwide, annihilating the very concept of owning a home, with all the prosperity & stability that once offered, for generations! Maybe forever! Fingers crossed, guys!” Ended up talking to some Fancy Finance Fellows at a bar tonight. When they found out what I do, one asked: “So is the dream Hollywood? Movie? Show?” I answered probably the truest thing I’ve said in a bar: “I’ve had many things optioned. The actual dream is being able to write whatever I want & pay for my life & my child’s with just that. That’s the REAL goal. Hollywood, if it happens, is just a means to that.”
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@Catvalente Some people just can't understand having motives beyond more money forever.  I'm in open source and maps, but exactly this. Couple days ago we had a discussion with a guy in a restaurant who's set of earning all the money in the world, and that's what I replied — just to make little useful digital things and have my children's needs paid for. Alas :( I just had a realization. It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights claimed “gay people getting married will ruin the institution for everyone.” But I think they always meant that if two men or two women can get married, then marriage must not be defined by a man obtaining a woman as servant/property & securing exclusive rights to her labor, identity, & body. And without that, they can’t even imagine what purpose marriage could ever serve.
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 @Catvalente I always liked the New Yorker cartoon when same-sex marriage was legalized in the US: as the man reads the news to his wife she says "oh, those poor people - haven't they suffered enough?" @Catvalente My theory is that one of its primary purposes is as a tax wheeze. Letting gay people get married can then be seen in the context of meaning straight couples then only have that advantage over an even smaller group, consisting of singletons, cohabiting siblings etc… |
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@Catvalente most startups only have a one in ten chance of surviving the first year so making money was the only thing on their mind
@Catvalente maybe not the dipshits who started it, but definitely its financiers for sure.
@Catvalente @ArpComics “The system is working as designed, gentlemen.”