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I dont think it says anything about things people pay for changing the world or even that payment means something will change the world. In fact it says "Or if its free, at least figuring out how to do some stuff that has the potential to really make a difference". In other words if you are not going to make money at least do something important. Clearly linux would qualify.

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The article references three different posts about how startups need to aim higher and try to change the world, then conflates it with "trying to do something really useful like making things that people actually want to pay for," before falling back to the comment on "or if it's free."

My point is that making something people will pay for is vastly different from what any of those articles he was referencing is talking about.

Honestly, the whole post kind of struck me as a retread dressed up to be linkbait. Which, ironically, is what he's complaining about in startups.

By "he," you mean "you." Grandparent poster is the author.

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