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0 pointsmikecane13y ago0 comments

>>>Founders don't have to concern themselves with getting hired.

But they still have to do things like pay rent, buy food, buy clothes, buy tech. Those things take money. And money is usually gotten from a job. The point is, Jobs wouldn't have even been able to get a job to survive first. That old guy sweeping floors in McDonald's today? Did you ever stop to think what led him there? (For the Rand worshipers out there, how was Galt employed at Taggart Transcontinental?)

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wyclif13y ago· 2 in thread

That's a nice way to strawman what I said, but I was talking about hiring, not buying stuff, income, or money. Here's the thing: Steve Jobs did not have to get hired, in the employee sense, because he founded his own company.

talmand13y ago

I don't see it necessarily as a strawman since it is essentially true, as he did have jobs leading up to Apple. Keep in mind that he founded his company with funding, it's not as if he founded the company and was instantly making enough money to survive with.

One could make the argument that even a founder is "hired" when he requires somebody else's money to make it happen.

mikecaneOP13y ago

Sure he needed to get hired. Otherwise he wouldn't have sought any job to begin with. Strawman, my foot!

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