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Jason Calacanis: belief

4 Oct 2022 Acquired ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis

“I think there's like a group of people who want the world to be more unfair than it actually is because it makes them feel more virtual signaling good.”

— Jason Calacanis

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Speaker
Jason Calacanis
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
4 Oct 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…The world is still unfair. I think the key insight is to recognize that the world is unfair. Actually what that is, is a game on the field and figure out how to play the game on the field. Sure. But I mean, it's never been more fair. The world is unfair, true statement. And in America, it's never been more fair. Google has five courses online. I think it's called Grow with Google or something, where they're teaching how to be a UX designer, how to do this, how to do that, and it's free so that they can get more people to apply for jobs. The average job entry salary for these things is like $80,000. I find this very weird in the world. I think there's like a group of people who want the world to be more unfair than it actually is because it makes them feel more virtual signaling good. That's their community. That's how they find that there are other people who love that they tweet that the world is unfair.…

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