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Why Startups Condense in America
bariswheel writes "The controversial genius developer/writer/entertainer Paul Graham writes an insightful piece on Why Startups Condense in America. Here's the skinny: "The US allows immigration, it is a rich country, it is not (yet) a police state, the universities are better, you can fire people, work is less identified with employment, it is not too fussy, it has a large domestic market, it has venture funding, and it has dynamic typing for careers. Inquire for details within."
>Pretty much the *entire* American public is pro-education.
Not even a large majority.
Just how many countries in the world are there where a politician could make a career and a run for President talking about "pointy-headed intellectuals", where "egghead" is a term of contempt, where a President can anounce that what education really needs is school prayer, where someone who reads maybe one book a year can be elected to high office, where the people at the bottom of the academic barrel are the ones chosen to teach children, and where students who study (or, God forbid, excel) are *routinely* frelling beaten up?
Education gets tolerated because it's perceived as leading to high-paying jobs and the production of cool toys.