This reads like a parody. He’s trying to raise the status of tech entrepreneurs, painting it as the only truly virtuous endeavors, while literally saying he’s not into playing status games.

But there are plenty of other gems in here too. Some come off like silly ignorance, others as callous or at least very tone def.

You have a ton of parasites in you, who are living off of you.

Umm, no I don’t. If you’re talking about micro fauna, that’s not parasites. Otherwise, Dude, you need to get that checked.

It’s not about taking something from somebody else. It’s from creating abundance.

But “disruption” inherently leads to winners and losers. There is a transfer from one group to another. Sure the end state may have more abundance than before but unless you address the disruption to those that lost out, you’ll have people, perhaps many, who feel left out, impoverished and distrust or despise the system. You can label them as “status” seeking haters of wealth creation, it’s a nice simple narrative, but divisive and counter productive to actually making the system work for more people and generate more wealth.

Today, I would rather be a poor person in a First World country, than be a rich person in Louis the XIV’s France.

You have no understanding of the plight of the poor and homeless in America. French countryside estate with a dedicated staff to provide for all your needs, or the homeless guy standing on the corner with the “hungry” sign? Of course the latter is often afflicted with mental illness and substance abuse, but those factors are in no small part driven by our society’s abundance distribution choices. Or is the “hungry” sign just an attempt to seek higher status? I think it’s just food.

We would all be living in massive abundance.

What makes you so sure the abundance would be so evenly or widely distributed? The abundance we have now is becoming less and less evenly distributed, so jumping to this conclusion just hand waves past some big hurdles in getting there.

It gets hijacked by improper pricing of externalities. It gets hijacked by improper yields, where you have corruption, or you have monopolies.

Then perhaps the journalists that criticize tech entrepreneurs are actually functioning as a break against this hi jacking? “Status” and “wealth” games not so clearly delineated huh?

Capitalism is not even something we discovered. It is in us in every exchange that we have.

You can literally say this about any human behavior. Again, this just hand waves and papers over difficult and complex choices. It just assumes his world view is inherent and virtuous.

We are the only animals in the animal kingdom that cooperate across genetic boundaries.

False. And easy enough for anyone to search on this topic and see so.

Everybody can be successful. It is merely a question of education and desire.

Wow. If there was any doubt before, it’s now obvious we’re in a complete fantasy at this point. There’s no bias, no prejudice, no advantages that one group has over another. Wait, well except education. Clearly we need to fix that because education isn’t as easily accessible to all, right? But that’s no big deal.

I’m not talking about monopolies. I’m not talking about crony capitalism. I’m not talking about mispriced externalities like the environment.

Yep, never mind. You’re not talking about the real world.

It goes on and on like this but Im done here.