> stolen from the hands of the Native Americans who had stewarded them for millennia before colonialism in different forms devastated their tribes. Through invasions, plagues, violence, coercion, bribery, war, and lopsided deals with the United States government, Indigenous groups and their ways of life were nearly obliterated
This clearly implies that invasions, violence, war, were brought by the US government to indigenous groups.
In reality, their "way of life" always consisted of these things.
It's a clear myth being perpetuated in the language of this article — even in words like 'stewarded' vs. 'stolen'.
If you're ambitious and individualistic (as those who create the most economic value are), there's no alternative to the United States still.
If you're from a wealthy place like Europe or Canada: The United States is still far richer, bigger market, and more risk-encouraging than your homeland. Not everybody will want to move from those places, but I've seen first-hand how many ambitious people will. The ambitious culture and opportunity can't be overstated, and the ability to create a better life in a far more efficient country that rewards your efforts.
If you're from a poor place like Latin America: Almost anywhere in the United States is still better quality-of-life, better pay, etc., plenty of reasons to move.
From my sample size, the only people discouraged by this are political agitators who take up valuable spots at our universities, and contribute ~nothing to our economy anyways. Almost every immigrant I know supports these actions.
Everything you just said but imagine revenue is $500K, and you spent $500K on salaries for the team.
You can only expense $100K of the salary costs this year, so even though you're break-even, you pay taxes on $400K in income.
Or, even worse, imagine revenue is $250K, and you spent $500K on salaries for the team.
You can only expense $100K of the salary costs this year, you're already -$250K on the year, and now you're paying taxes on $400K in income. You're destroyed.
VC-backed startups aren't designed to get profitable quickly, and I don't see that as a problem for the American taxpayer, and nobody is saying the taxpayer is giving money or helping. A business losing money should not have to pay taxes on income, as if it's not losing money.
Fair, but worth noting the founders almost certainly already have gotten fat secondaries, and now have a chance to build something much larger if they can execute.
First, this looks great and congrats on the launch!
Is it possible to use Figma designs with this?
It's really hard to get something great through just a chat interface, and I've seen a lot of these AI tools don't allow me to actually give it more to work with like Figma designs.
The West is clearly a culture, not a race. It's also the most diverse culture there is.
Considering we're on HN, it's probably worth reading HN's founder's take on "x-isms" as a substitute for truth or honest debate: https://paulgraham.com/heresy.html
I'm proud of Western culture. But this is difficult to assert. There are more extant languages in many Eastern cultures; that arguably counts as a cognitive diversity more meaningful than skin colour or geographic breadth. (To say nothing of more individuals outside the West than within it.)
> it's probably worth reading HN's founder's take on "x-isms" as a substitute for truth or honest debate
You're linking to a decent essay. But it's fair to note that Graham has gone off the deep end recently, putting intellectual honesty below kowtowing to political powers (or just strong personalities who might make him more money). An appeal to his authority might not be your strongest argument.
> There are more extant languages in many Eastern cultures
My family comes from Eastern Europe and I've traveled it (and Asia) extensively, and while I agree skin color isn't the hallmark of diversity some call it, I think the East's cultures are really similar, and the diversity of thought within those cultures much smaller.
All the division and hatred we're seeing is, a negative manifestation of, but an indication of how diverse the West is.
> An appeal to his authority might not be your strongest argument.
His article literally mentions how it should be about the content of our words, rather than appeal to authority.
I just thought it funny and relevant that this is happening on the website he created, but maybe better to cite it without mentioning who he is. Wasn't meant as an appeal to authority but fair it could be interpreted that way.
FWIW, I disagree with Graham on a lot recently politically, but I still think the heresy comparison is extremely on-point.
I've always agreed with this take but now as a B2B founder doing sales, I think it can honestly be interpreted a lot more charitably.
I get on an initial discovery call to learn a few things, like:
* How much will it cost us to support you based on what you're using our platform for?
* How expensive is this problem for you today?
* From there, how much money could we save you?
My goal is to ensure a (very) positive ROI for the lead, and that we can service them profitably. That's how I put pricing together. It seems pretty reasonable.
Our platform is also rather extensible, and I want to make sure that they'll understand how to use it and what it's for, instead of becoming an unhappy customer or wasting their own time.
It resulted in another company essentially being shut down, and suing for their data back. Crazy. There has to be a better way of doing that digitally (I assume there is, these days, and we won't see something like this again).
I wasn’t thinking about that at all and don’t think it would -
I was mentioning how things have moved to the cloud these days, and what the implications are for innocent unrelated parties’ data, given that the cloud involves this overlap of data on one device.
> stolen from the hands of the Native Americans who had stewarded them for millennia before colonialism in different forms devastated their tribes. Through invasions, plagues, violence, coercion, bribery, war, and lopsided deals with the United States government, Indigenous groups and their ways of life were nearly obliterated
This clearly implies that invasions, violence, war, were brought by the US government to indigenous groups.
In reality, their "way of life" always consisted of these things.
It's a clear myth being perpetuated in the language of this article — even in words like 'stewarded' vs. 'stolen'.
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