The reason why wanting to change the world appears to be an "aristocratic conceit" is that the current reward system overly rewards predictable riskless delivery over unpredictable risky innovation, meaning that it is much harder to obtain the breathing room (read: cash) on both a personal and business level to go in those "world-changing" directions.
Given that venture capital investment is one of the best (if riskiest) ways to make money, I really think it is time to throw out the accredited-investor law and open it up to everyone. This will flood the world with startup capital, allowing more breathing room for real innovation (read: world-changing) to occur.
I agree that if no bottom line is made at all, you're in trouble. I can't find the post now, but there's a great blog post out there about realizing that you have to make yourself valuable to SOMEone, SOMEhow in a way that will make them pay you, whether you like it or not...
> This will flood the world with startup capital, allowing more breathing room for real innovation (read: world-changing) to occur.
I wonder if this isn't over optimistic. I find it too easy to imagine that even more money would upend the productive world while frantically scrambling for the next hypersocialgamified instacandygrambook.
Given that venture capital investment is one of the best (if riskiest) ways to make money, I really think it is time to throw out the accredited-investor law and open it up to everyone. This will flood the world with startup capital, allowing more breathing room for real innovation (read: world-changing) to occur.
I agree that if no bottom line is made at all, you're in trouble. I can't find the post now, but there's a great blog post out there about realizing that you have to make yourself valuable to SOMEone, SOMEhow in a way that will make them pay you, whether you like it or not...