Ask HN: How can software engineers solve the problem of Income Inequality?

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by bsn54 • 9 years ago

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reggiepret• 9 years ago

By not chasing unicorns for themselves. If a founder starts a company looking only for a billion dollar valuation to retire rich and young, they only increase the inequality divide.

Rather, founder should be seeking to start companies that give opportunity to their employees to be empowered. Taking in talent from different sources (not only ivy league) and developing the skills needed for their company.

Another practical way is perhaps to create (insert buzzword here) that will open up learning of important life skills to the large swaths of under/unemployed/employable people. Grit, resilience, creativity etc.

We are in large debt repay cycle, as Ray Dalio describes it, so companies have to be bootstrapped and built with minimum risks. Empowering a generation to become life long learners is perhaps the best thing we can do as engineers. Something else to look at is environmental stability (ie safe communities, stable households etc.)

Inspiration for this post: "Thank you for being late" - Thomas Friedman

nickelanddimed• 9 years ago

Ask HN: How can software engineers solve the problem of Income Inequality?

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