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Unpopular opinion: This conflicts with SV's "disrupt everything" mantra.

• kstenerud 3y ago
  Of course it does. But this is nothing new. Rich young people have been doing it for centuries. They make their short term gains that they congratulate their cleverness for, then suffer the consequences, and those that survive are the ones that re-learn the lessons of old. But on the other hand, it's sometimes the only way to get the old method out of the way so that new efficiencies can be gained with the technologies available today. Of course most will fail, but some will survive. Shoot first, ask questions later.
  • studentrob 3y ago
    Not arguing that it's a new thing, but there is always another way. Making the problem bigger is an interesting way to go about it. I will grant that doing so does expand the number of people impacted, and therefore the number of people interested in solving the problem is also bigger, as well, perhaps, as the apparent pay off for solving it. But ultimately, the solution is going to be something that could have been applied by the same people who expanded the size of the problem.
• eYrKEC2 3y ago
  Chesterton's Fence doesn't conflict with disruption -- it conflicts with uneducated disruption -- disruption that doesn't understand what it's even disrupting.