rant · moment 6 of 15
Entrepreneurs, Rockefellers, and the Ruthless Productive Class
from It's A Small World After All · #79
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3 minTim argues most people aren't suited to entrepreneurship despite the current obsession with calling yourself one, praises the ruthless efficiency of industrialists like Rockefeller and Carnegie, and contrasts that with the impossibility of "pure" commercial art.
- 15:20Tim notes something cool about people in their business: they refuse to accept they're not running the company and actually try to make it happen.
- 15:36This generation in their early twenties has a complete lack of accepting their role in society and just wants everything.
- 15:55Everyone's calling themselves entrepreneurs now, but most people aren't actually suited to those pursuits.
- 16:20The majority of people are suited to working, having families—this is why Tim isn't fully for unfettered capitalism.
- 17:02Rockefellers and Carnegies weren't just people acting; they had to grab their industries by the throat and beat them into submission over a lifetime.
- 17:22Tim defends ruthless maniacs in productive class—their ruthlessness makes things run more efficiently.
- 17:36The moment you try to sell art, it stops being art in a pure sense.
- 18:05Rich people literally commissioned works of art as a way to shave years off purgatory.