Generation Y Internet users aspire to become rich and famous rather than work for their country

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by tim • 19 years ago

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pg2• 19 years ago

False premise. Do Larry & Sergey do less for the world than politicians? Does the median politician even have a net positive effect?

brlewis3• 19 years ago

To answer your first question, absolutely yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_and_...

I don't know the answer to your second question, nor could I answer it for the median of whatever group Larry & Sergey represent.

pg2• 19 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

jamiequint• 19 years ago

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

shogunmike• 19 years ago

It's a shame that so many people will not attempt to follow on with their "dream job" goals.

At my UK University there is a strong culture of getting a good degree in a quantitative field, perhaps doing a PhD in a similar (but still quantitative) field and then being plucked out by a large investment bank to work as a "quantitative analyst". The salary is good, but I'm sure the work becomes tedious after a while. The process is almost as precise as an automobile assembly line!

I wish the culture of entrepreneurialism was stronger than the desire to go and price financial derivatives. After all, two/three hundred years ago nearly everybody was an entrepreneur (farmers). How things have changed...

byrneseyeview• 19 years ago

This is pretty hilarious. Is "campaigning for green issues" going to do more for green issues than starting a startup like Craigslist that saves the world more wasted newsprint than all those activists put together?

brlewis3• 19 years ago

It might, depending on the talent of the person running the campaign. My talents aren't suited to being effective politically, but I wish more people who did have such talents would use them to change things. Many of the world's biggest and most important problems are political, not technological.

Generation Y Internet users aspire to become rich and famous rather than work for their country

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