“I fight for the user” has been lurking in the hindbrains of so many tech workers since the Tron years, somehow nestling comfortably alongside of the idea that “I don’t need a union, I’m a temporarily embarrassed founder.”
Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (source)
Oof. I don’t like this sentence, because I’m in it.
I don’t get it, what does “a temporarily embarrassed founder” mean?
It’s a reference to this quote:
Edit: apparently the original John Steinbeck quote was:
“i would totally be a founder right now if it weren’t for [excuse xyz]”
Damn bro, you ain’t pitching the next disruptive idea to VC parasites?!?!
Fucking pleb