My main thing here is not necessarily O'Reilly himself, but the culture that seems to be coming out that making a profit is a dirty business, and something you don't admit to.
Because of this, many business leaders don't talk about making money, which leads to a lot of people getting the wrong idea about what it means and what it takes to get into business and stay in business.
Sure, you can be Bill Gates and change the world with philanthropy, but in order to get to that position, you need to spend a lot of time focusing on profits to build the wealth.
People want to skip straight to the wealth dissemination part and miss the part about making a profit, which just leads to misery for all involved.
I understand this is an unpopular idea and I've taken some criticism in this thread, but I really take pg's essay on thinking the unthinkable and saying the unsayable to heart. I seriously believe we've got to a point where you can't say 'I made a profit' without society in general looking down at you. And so I want to say the unsayable in this case and force people to really think about this.
My main thing here is not necessarily O'Reilly himself, but the culture that seems to be coming out that making a profit is a dirty business, and something you don't admit to.
Because of this, many business leaders don't talk about making money, which leads to a lot of people getting the wrong idea about what it means and what it takes to get into business and stay in business.
Sure, you can be Bill Gates and change the world with philanthropy, but in order to get to that position, you need to spend a lot of time focusing on profits to build the wealth.
People want to skip straight to the wealth dissemination part and miss the part about making a profit, which just leads to misery for all involved.
I understand this is an unpopular idea and I've taken some criticism in this thread, but I really take pg's essay on thinking the unthinkable and saying the unsayable to heart. I seriously believe we've got to a point where you can't say 'I made a profit' without society in general looking down at you. And so I want to say the unsayable in this case and force people to really think about this.