> “Now we look back on medieval peasants and wonder how they > stood it. How grim it must have been to till the same > fields your whole life with no hope of anything better, > under the thumb of lords and priests you had to give all > your surplus to and acknowledge as your masters. I wouldn’t > be surprised if one day people look back on what we > consider a normal job in the same way. How grim it would be > to commute every day to a cubicle in some soulless office > complex, and be told what to do by someone you had to > acknowledge as a boss—someone who could call you into their > office and say “take a seat,” and you’d sit!”

http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html

This is an article about founding startups, by the way. And in it, the author explicitly advises anyone with a family NOT to do so.

Dammit, dammit, dammit.

[Edit: Wait a minute… who cares? I’m more likely to get my name out there with an open-source project than with a startup anyway.]