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That was epic.

And this is the heart of everything:

>>>It’s not rocket science: people build what they know. Cosmopolitan, well-educated young men and women in America’s big cities are rushing into startups and building for other cosmopolitan well-educated young men and women in big cities.

Until you've become part of the exotic underclass -- or an over-50 perma-unemployable (tick tick tick) -- you won't see these problems, won't be affected by them, and won't use your skills to solve them.

In ten, twenty, thirty years, shit will start to get done. Too late for many, but better late than never.




Stuff can start to get done now. It's just about privileged people thinking about more than themselves. There's plenty of bright people at the bottom too, just without the resources and connections to get anything fixed.




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