> "New York didn’t care about Chicago, but Chicago was where the hogs were being slaughtered. Now New York doesn’t care about San Francisco, but today the hogs are being slaughtered in San Francisco.” What Turner meant is that these are the charnel grounds of the new economy, and that there isn’t anything all that new about the new economy.
Who writes this kind of over-dramatizing bullshit? Nobody forces these people to follow their grandiose visions. They could just do useful work like the rest of us, which isn't quite as romantic, but is doing the world as a whole better than another failing "product" (which is the moniker for a useless website that people in 1999 would have put together in 2 weekends without extorting $20000 of VC money).
The author is using cynicism to make a point across.
> They could just do useful work like the rest of us, which isn't quite as romantic, but is doing the world as a whole better than another failing "product"
Who writes this kind of over-dramatizing bullshit? Nobody forces these people to follow their grandiose visions. They could just do useful work like the rest of us, which isn't quite as romantic, but is doing the world as a whole better than another failing "product" (which is the moniker for a useless website that people in 1999 would have put together in 2 weekends without extorting $20000 of VC money).