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My beautiful and super intelligent niece is about done with her four year undergraduate degree from a known-prestigious school where she she dropped her interest in business and seeks a job in a non-profit where she will "have an impact changing the world". The problem is that she sees the latter as more status-making than the former. She will not be lazy in that role and that is a big part of the problem.

Elon Musk just had a great quote:

“History is written by the victors. Well, yes, but not if your enemies are still alive and have a lot of time on their hands to edit Wikipedia.”

I really think the key is for all of us to stop walking on egg shells around all this ideology of grievance and start pointing out that activism is a sewer profession. This is difficult for example when Hollywood portrays the activist as the hero and the business as the devil. But Hollywood is also a sewer.

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