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  • Appreciated, but I’m not sure if that would be popular🙂

    People want to read books about how to “win” at capitalism, not how it utterly breaks you and everything you held dear over the course of your life.

    I doubt anyone would even be willing to publish it.

    I’d consider writing one if people were interested though. I’ve done it all at this point pretty much. Climbed up and down the ladder of tech and business two or three times over. I’ve spoken at huge tech conferences, worked for startups, enterprises, mid tier, tech, non-tech, etc. I’ve owned my own companies, built startups with friends, with foreign investors, and more.

    All it’s taught me is that I need to go live in the woods alone until death comes.



  • I’ve done this shit for decades. Decades.

    I’m exhausted. It’s tiring. I’ve been with startup after startup after startup.

    I’ve vested equity after equity into more equity.

    I’ve made $0 off that equity over nearly 3 decades.

    My health suffers because of the stress and strain of the jobs I’ve been forced to put my body through over the years and there’s no coming back from that.

    My mental health is at a constant tipping point during my every day of work and I wonder just how much longer I can even manage to put in “regular” hours before I just curl up into a ball and wait for the sweet embrace of death.

    I’ve lost decades of my life, thrown away in offices, cubicles, and shitty pizza party meetings to celebrate meaningless achievements that are wiped out in the next quarterly planning session.

    Brett Goldstein can go fuck himself with a sandpaper infused dildo.






  • That’s a fair correction. I guess authoritarianism is too far of a comparison for the book. I had read it a long time ago and remembered it pretty much straight up glorifying the military and military conquest above all, and as you say, the only path to citizenship is through military service.

    It is a militarily dominant society, but that doesn’t necessarily require authoritarianism as the movie portrayed.

    The one thing missing from the movie I wish they had put in was that in the books, IIRC, they had mech-like suits that had to be learned how to be piloted/used, and I remember that being a decent bit of a few chapters just learning how to use their mechanical battle suits.

    They did not go into battle with some basic kevlar vs giant bugs.