There’s not a drop of irony here. It’s just mindboggling that HN prop these charlatans up like gods. You’re not temporarily embarrassed millionaires - you’re just embarrassing.
The thing about Marc Andreessen is that of all VC-types of people he seemed like one with a modicum of tech legitimacy, given his history/role in the development of the web.
I was at UIUC shortly after he graduated and the general impression was that he basically just stole Mosaic from the University to create Netscape. Not sure that bestows him with any tech legitimacy. He's certainly a good businessman.
What if that legitimacy is merely a story crafted by his press department? It so obviously will help interacting with his target audience: devs who take pride in technical skills and knowledge.
Why do you give people who can easily afford to have a team craft an image the benefit of believing it? I categorically don't. Not because I am of bad faith, no, precisely because I trust people to do what's in their interest: make sure your fund gets to talking with your audience.
>It’s just mindboggling that HN prop these charlatans up like gods
Link to some examples? My impression is that many HN users are associated with the startup community, and therefore like what Andreessen or PG is doing, but I don't think they prop them up "like gods" or even demigods for that matter. You can like what someone is doing in one area (ie. startups/VC), without thinking they're gods or blindly believing whatever they say.
The power of marketing works best when least expected, and for some reason this data-driven fact-based engineering bunch is either just not (surprisingly!) not cognisant of the mechanics of investors using their brains and are gullible, star struck, almost willfully ignorant (seeing the lengths the innocence of the wealthy is sometimes defended). Or people are cognisant, and then must be participating in the charade, on the basis of greed; not biting the hand that feeds you is good exercise for pitching.
What other mechanisms could be at play for this worship?
Anyway thanks for your concise comment; it could not be more on point!
I frankly don’t want housing the kinds of people who can’t afford houses anywhere near me. I don’t say this publicly, but the council candidate who “protects home values” has my vote.
I agree housing affordability is an important problem. I am not willing to have so much as ruffians in the nearby grocery store to fix it though.
Just to give you another perspective, it seems like they're not building low-income housing, they're just building denser housing than is normal for the area ("multifamily overlay zones").
As someone who lives in the Bay Area, guessing that if they went ahead and these were actually built, the housing/rental prices of these units would still be ultra high. Yeah, housing is so bad here, they'd probably just to attract young tech workers or people with at least decent jobs.
davidivadavid|3 years ago
Unfortunately it seems to be quickly evaporating.
hvs|3 years ago
brnt|3 years ago
Why do you give people who can easily afford to have a team craft an image the benefit of believing it? I categorically don't. Not because I am of bad faith, no, precisely because I trust people to do what's in their interest: make sure your fund gets to talking with your audience.
x86x87|3 years ago
Also, just because someone makes the wrong choice or says the wrong things does not make them a charlatan?
refurb|3 years ago
You're either 100% good or 100% bad, no in between.
And of course there is no 100% good, only the 100% good who have yet been discovered to be 100% bad.
tofuahdude|3 years ago
gruez|3 years ago
Link to some examples? My impression is that many HN users are associated with the startup community, and therefore like what Andreessen or PG is doing, but I don't think they prop them up "like gods" or even demigods for that matter. You can like what someone is doing in one area (ie. startups/VC), without thinking they're gods or blindly believing whatever they say.
unknown|3 years ago
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brnt|3 years ago
What other mechanisms could be at play for this worship?
Anyway thanks for your concise comment; it could not be more on point!
upupandup|3 years ago
throwawaysleep|3 years ago
I frankly don’t want housing the kinds of people who can’t afford houses anywhere near me. I don’t say this publicly, but the council candidate who “protects home values” has my vote.
I agree housing affordability is an important problem. I am not willing to have so much as ruffians in the nearby grocery store to fix it though.
computerdork|3 years ago
As someone who lives in the Bay Area, guessing that if they went ahead and these were actually built, the housing/rental prices of these units would still be ultra high. Yeah, housing is so bad here, they'd probably just to attract young tech workers or people with at least decent jobs.
kareemsabri|3 years ago
jakeinspace|3 years ago
trhway|3 years ago
how near is near? Should they be placed into a ghetto? or taken off the planet?
>I am not willing to have so much as ruffians in the nearby grocery store to fix it though.
To me it sounds like being poor is already a crime according to you.
femiagbabiaka|3 years ago