I could even prune that down some more. What's wrong with selling goods and services?
Not as a means to the accumulation of enough wealth to cash out and cease selling goods and services, which is what the startup world is trained to do. There's this hyper-focus on financialization, in that nothing means anything beyond the eventual payout, and all things are designed to either succeed or fail at going public and delivering that jackpot.
What about… doing the thing? Making a good, doing a service? What if that thing is in itself a thing to do, a purpose to have? In that case if you are either breaking even and retaining control, or amortizing the cost against something else, then you're pursuing some kind of idea that is not itself 'money'.
Why not that? Why not, directly, a thing that isn't money? I'm given to understand the idea of money is to accumulate the power and resources to do whatever thing your dream envisions. Well, how about cut out the middlemoney and do the thing?
I could even prune that down some more. What's wrong with selling goods and services?
Not as a means to the accumulation of enough wealth to cash out and cease selling goods and services, which is what the startup world is trained to do. There's this hyper-focus on financialization, in that nothing means anything beyond the eventual payout, and all things are designed to either succeed or fail at going public and delivering that jackpot.
What about… doing the thing? Making a good, doing a service? What if that thing is in itself a thing to do, a purpose to have? In that case if you are either breaking even and retaining control, or amortizing the cost against something else, then you're pursuing some kind of idea that is not itself 'money'.
Why not that? Why not, directly, a thing that isn't money? I'm given to understand the idea of money is to accumulate the power and resources to do whatever thing your dream envisions. Well, how about cut out the middlemoney and do the thing?