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A business relationship is not coercion.

I’m aware that people like to create things, but that depends on what those things are. Your offer to work on cancer software to help cure your mother’s hypothetical cancer only comes with intrinsic motivation. If we relied on that, we would not have made the progress in that field that we have made, and many more people would be dead.

My mother has cancer. I’m quite glad the scientists working on researching better treatments are actually getting paid.

> A world where people aren't forced to submit to business owners like you.

It’s curious that you have such contempt for entrepreneurs on a website themed around entrepreneurship and published by a venture capital firm.

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I get the feeling you’re no stranger to the words “anarchist”, “ancap”, and “communist”, so I’ll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/fibDNwF8bjs




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