You know nothing about about me, what I have seen, or where I have been. It's true that I've picked some terrible startups, but hundreds of people have had similar experiences to corroborate. If I were the only one who held these opinions or had that category of experience, I'd think differently about the whole thing.

I'm pretty good at picking out genuine problems (i.e. the persistent low status, mistreatment, and mediocre compensation of software engineers in this industry) from noise (transient bad luck that happens to all of us).

If every founder, investor, executive you have met has seemed malicious or incompetent, please consider this: the only common denominator is you.

That is far from what I said. Not even close. Not every one is bad. However, I do think that the social class distance between VCs and petitioners is vast and is already at, if not beyond, the point of being the most important factor in the interaction.

This game has already been worked out, and we should leave it to the people who won it and go build something new. They don't have much without us, so what are we waiting for?