> NOBODY has any standing to tell me what my "proper ambition is."
Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being; I think the debate is about the meaning of words.
If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").
Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being;
But the author of TFA did. He made a blanket assertion about what the "proper ambition of a tech entrepreneur" ought to be.
If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").
I agree, 100%. But I don't see how that's even remotely analogous to the point about the author of TFA mandating what a tech entrepreneur's ambition ought to be.
> NOBODY has any standing to tell me what my "proper ambition is."
Nobody is telling you what YOU should do or not do as a human being; I think the debate is about the meaning of words.
If you buy a piano and proceed to destroy it with a chainsaw, you can certainly do that. But you don't get to call it "playing the piano" or "composing" (although nowadays it may be considered some kind of "art").