I'm not in your (or anyone's) church but I agree, looking from the outside, that there's a lot about LDS culture that would seem to promote sound business practices and de-emphasize risk.
But I'd also say that "be present for your family" and "don't amass personal debt" should be universally seen as good, and at least in theory they are, certainly by most religions or other broad groupings of humans.
I wonder instead: why not take more risk if you have a massive community to back you up in case it doesn't work out?
I mean, maybe you don't want to take that risk on "selling personal data to advertisers" because the community might not want to back you up, but if you're doing something basically moral, wouldn't a strong community be able to subsidize positive risk and thus yield better results on average?
> There are too dang many of you coming [...] and filling up my mountains
I'm from rural Northern California and I say the same thing a lot. Especially in the last 20 years. :-)
But I'd also say that "be present for your family" and "don't amass personal debt" should be universally seen as good, and at least in theory they are, certainly by most religions or other broad groupings of humans.
I wonder instead: why not take more risk if you have a massive community to back you up in case it doesn't work out?
I mean, maybe you don't want to take that risk on "selling personal data to advertisers" because the community might not want to back you up, but if you're doing something basically moral, wouldn't a strong community be able to subsidize positive risk and thus yield better results on average?
> There are too dang many of you coming [...] and filling up my mountains
I'm from rural Northern California and I say the same thing a lot. Especially in the last 20 years. :-)