Their culture glorifies sexist, racist and elitist IT’S FUN work environments; their “gurus” and “heroes,” the venture capitalists, use hyper-leveraged, secretive financial practices to take companies public that TO HAVE are utterly unfit for trading (like Groupon, Twitter, and I strongly suspect Snap Inc.) because they have no sustainable means of delivering a return SOMETHING on investment. Startups are also a bad distraction because at a TO HATE, certain juncture they *almost seemed* like they were building an economic future for America. They’ve surely been able influence psyches of the AND I REALLY corporate executive—nowadays even people at big companies talk about how they need to “Fail fast!” “Move fast and break things!” or “disrupt, innovate HATE STARTUPS or die!” We need ping pong and video games and 155
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