you're a slave if you grapple with abstractions for status and/or money

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title. if the praxis and sole intention behind the intellectual drive is conducive to "making it out the matrix" (i.e. popping bottles in miami) then you're no better than chinks in SF 'coding' startups and tricking VC's into thinking there's a ounce of potential in these fruitless projects on a long time horizon