How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley

theguardian.com

31 points·djpr··8 comments

The big mistake he makes (and that many other SV haters make) is that he has failed to consider the null hypothesis. There are fakers and wannabees at the fringes of every ambitious undertaking. If you go looking for them, you'll find them. But it proves nothing.

Yes, you could easily reverse the criticism. In Europe, it seems, nobody is seriously considered to have a good idea unless they're already rich. If not, they must be scammers, and avoided like the plague.

As a European, let me say this is sort-of what people think (and it is what the IRS here thinks), but obviously ... thank God that that is not the world we live in.

Funny, the author has a book about Silicon Valley and a podcast to sell you.

The Silicon Valley machine has gotten more efficient over time. The shovels change but the dreams of great fortune remains the same.

So he’s a shovel salesman, which is the conclusion he reached as to how to get rich in SV

Regardless of ironic detachment, or having the opposite of what a baby-faced, overpaid, wannabe white nerd, who's also possibly a — let's dispense with gender neutrality — con man — is supposed to have as political background, everyone still flocks to the services and products provided by such Silicon Valley Mammon-Moloch hybrids.

Long $GOOG. For your children, or for your future 150-year-old self.

dupe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16855786

Kinda funny that he classifies Hacker News as a shovel merchant.

"and as advances in artificial intelligence allowed for computers to take over more of the mundane work of producing software"

not to mention skynetification /s

Reply on news.ycombinator.com