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Alina
@alinaferry
Founder mode or not, why is it always the assumption that everyone’s greatest aspiration should be to become a founder? When I was growing up, anyone who wasn’t trying to quit their stable job to become an entrepreneur was frowned upon. When I started working in film, the dominant idea was that every director/producer should dream of being independent and having their own production company. Now everyone needs to be a founder. Why? Very few are actually cut out for this. I’m just a little tired of this narrative being pushed on us that you’re either a visionary one-person show or a total loser. There are so many exciting options below the founder lever that never get the credit/respect they deserve. People get stuck in this “feeling of underperformance” loops when they shouldn’t be.
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Camila đź«‚
@camilags
I’m also not charmed to this idea of being a founder. What for? There are so many creative ways of bringing our ideas into to the world. Sometimes it is just by talking to someone, writing something, doing something to have fun. There are so many work possibilities without the need of founding anything. 2000 $Units
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Alina
@alinaferry
The argument I’m hearing right now is that if you can do more you should be doing more (see Nonlinear’s comment) It may be valid but I don’t like the idea that anyone below founder’s level is nobody doing nothing Also, so much depends on personality. Not every talented (even more talented) artist can have Taylor Swift’s career bc they don’t have her personality and mindset. Citing her bc she’s often deemed not talented enough - which may be true - but one can never get to her level if they don’t have stamina to deal with the music industry’s bs
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Camila đź«‚
@camilags
The thing is that being a founder is just a way to make difference. And many time they just doesn’t make any difference. There are plenty of other ways to cause impact in this world. If everybody would be the same, it would be very boring. This idea of doing more and more is perverse and very connected to neoliberalism. It is an illusion. Doing more for what? What are the costs of doing more and more? I’m not talking of doing anything. But there are healthy limits to what one can do.
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