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David Heinemeier Hansson, Trickle-down workaholism:
It’s not hard to understand why such a mythology serves the interest of money men who spread their bets wide and only succeed when unicorns emerge. Of course they’re going to desire fairytale sacrifices. There’s little to no consequence to them if the many fall by the wayside, spent to completion trying to hit that home run. Make me rich or die tryin’.
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The sly entrepreneur seeks to cajole their employees with carrots. Organic, locally-sourced ones, delightfully prepared by a master chef, of course. In the office. Along with all the other pampering and indulgent spoils AT THE OFFICE. The game is to make it appear as though employees choose this life for themselves, that they just love spending all their waking (and in some cases, even sleeping) hours at that damn office.
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Not only are these sacrifices statistically overwhelmingly likely to be in vain, they’re also completely disproportionate. The programmer or designer or writer or even manager that gives up their life for a 80+ hour moonshot will comparably-speaking be compensated in bananas, even if their lottery coupon should line up. The lion’s share will go to the Scar and his hyenas, not the monkeys.
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So don’t tell me that there’s something uniquely demanding about building yet another fucking startup that dwarfs the accomplishments of The Origin of Species or winning five championship rings. It’s bullshit. Extractive, counterproductive bullshit peddled by people who either need a narrative to explain their personal sacrifices and regrets or who are in a position to treat the lives and wellbeing of others like cannon fodder.
What exactly is an entrepreneur?:
In a new paper Magnus Henrekson and Tino Sanandaji argue that the number of self-made billionaires a country produces provides a much better measure of its entrepreneurial vigour than the number of small businesses. The authors studied Forbes’s annual list of billionaires over the past 20 years and produced a list of 996 self-made billionaires (ie, people who had made their own money by founding innovative companies as opposed to people who inherited money or who had extracted it from the state). They demonstrated that “entrepreneur density” correlates with many things that we intuitively associate with economic dynamism, such as the number of patents per head or the flow of venture capital.
They also demonstrated it correlating negatively with rates of small-business owners, self-employment and startups—in other words that many traditional measures are about as misleading as you can get.
Countries with a lot of small companies are often stagnant. People start their own businesses because there are no other opportunities. Those businesses stay small because they are doing exactly what other small businesses do. The same is true of industries. In America industries that produce more entrepreneur billionaires tend to have a lower share of employees working in firms with less than 20 employees.
This makes sense: successful entrepreneurs inevitably destroy their smaller rivals as they take their companies to scale. Walmart became the world’s largest retailer by replacing thousands of Mom-and-Pop shops. Amazon became a bookselling giant by driving thousands of booksellers out of business. By sponsoring new ways of doing things entrepreneurs create new organisations that employ thousands of people including people who might otherwise have been self-employed. In other words, they simultaneously boost the economy’s overall productivity and reduce its level of self-employment.
O Presidente da República ou o Presidente de República, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, promove encontro com jovens para reflexão sobre o futuro da economia. Para evitar confusões sobre a forma gramatical a utilizar, Cavaco Silva apenas fará uso da palavra no final da jornada de reflexão, e esperemos que seja apenas uma palavra. Final. Por agora, não vejo razão para implicar com a narrativa que o chefe de Estado venha a utilizar. No entanto, gostaria de obter explicações adicionais sobre o significado de "Empreendedorismo como cultura". O que significa? Agarrar transeuntes no passeio e declamar-lhes trechos de obras literárias de relevo? Se é Empreendedorismo como cultura, será que significa que é para perder dinheiro como acontece com grande parte dos projectos culturais? A expressão é, na minha opinião, muito triste. Estou mesmo a ver a coisa dita do seguinte modo; "malta, toca a acordar. Vamos lá fazer um projecto cheio de vigor, mas não se entusiasmem muito. É para ser como cultura". Se a jornada se organiza em torno de grupos de trabalho designados por Empreendedorismo empresarial e Empreendedorismo social, porque razão temos um bicho híbrido chamado de "Empreendedorismo como cultura"? Será carne de cavalo servida como rosbife? Não sei qual a equipa de empreendedores filosóficos que trabalha lá para os lados de Belém, mas convinha que tivesse um pouco mais de juízo. As palavras e as expressões devem ser eleitas de um modo criterioso. Qualquer dia corremos o risco de ter um presidente com cultura ou como cultura. Agora, temos outra coisa que não consigo definir. Só sei que tem a ver com um como muito profundo.
"Pedro Passos Coelho lamentou que «a cultura média» em Portugal seja a «da aversão ao risco» e que os jovens licenciados portugueses prefiram, na sua maioria, «ser trabalhadores por conta de outrem do que empreendedores»."
Certo. Há coisa de uns dois meses tive uma ideia para um projecto que requeria pouco capital e não tinha praticamente risco algum - ou melhor, não teria prejuízos de monta caso falhasse. Fiz as contas e só o que ia pagar em impostos demoveu-me de avançar. O empreendedorismo é muito giro mas não num país onde o estado nos confisca à bruta e sem pedir licença.