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Don't you people see something wrong with this entire viewpoint? You're being told that you have to be willing to do nothing but the business, have no life, be in no way conservative or careful or RESPONSIBLE. You are being told that in order to get their money you have to throw away everything you are and everything you have, not for the assurance of any kind of success, but just for the ability to play the game...all while they aren't risking the same thing at all.
You know who the "investor" is in the pig? The farmer. He raises the pig, fattens it up...then slaughters it and sells it off to the highest bidder. And you people are begging to be the pig! Don't you see this as a bit...self-destructive? Rigged to screw you? In any way unacceptable? Please tell the me the human spirit hasn't degraded to such a degree that you're begging for the opportunity to be someone else's breakfast.
Remember, kids...the pig doesn't benefit from the farmer's investment. He is used up and eaten. Wouldn't it be better to do business with people who see you as (I know this is asking a lot) people?
Why Venture Capitalists Invest In Pigs, Not Chickens
There is an old parable about the concept of commitment when it comes to breakfast. The story goes that when looking at a plate of the traditional fare of ham and eggs, it's obvious that the chicken is an interested party, but the pig is truly committed. When I tell this story to entrepreneur...
For true cosmic horror, one need look no further than a physics textbook.
Ginsberg's Theorem (The modern statement of the three laws of thermodynamics)
1. You can't win.
2. You can't even break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
4. THE LAW OF ENTROPY:
The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.
Lovecraft's 'cosmicism': another quick take.
For Lovecraft's 'cosmicism' to attain full flower, he'd have had to give up his (meta)fictional conceit of Ancient Races Lying Dormant - it's a philosophical copout. If your supposed philosophical point is that humanity is insignificant, it's enough to pit man against Nature, or Thermodynamics, o...
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