Success in the start-up world tends to give you big lumps of money, which increase your freedom, allowing you to do whatever it is you want to do.
Success in existing systems tends to give you a big salary, which can be cut off if you step out of line, making you dependent.
I think it depends what you mean about success in existing systems. What you say here (asking for a bigger salary) is actually a mistake on the part of the successful person according to people like Cal Newport. In So Good They Can’t Ignore You, he argues that freedom or independence is actually one thing you can buy by being… so good they can’t ignore you/so good they need you. His point is that a certain kind of success (or more to the point, competence/mastery) makes the system dependent on you, which means you have more freedom. This might also be part of what lsur had in mind.
Not that I think everyone can play this card; but for those who are able to, it seems like a nice way to convert success inside of current systems into freedom.
I think it depends what you mean about success in existing systems. What you say here (asking for a bigger salary) is actually a mistake on the part of the successful person according to people like Cal Newport. In So Good They Can’t Ignore You, he argues that freedom or independence is actually one thing you can buy by being… so good they can’t ignore you/so good they need you. His point is that a certain kind of success (or more to the point, competence/mastery) makes the system dependent on you, which means you have more freedom. This might also be part of what lsur had in mind.
Not that I think everyone can play this card; but for those who are able to, it seems like a nice way to convert success inside of current systems into freedom.
Yes! It’s all about manipulating existing systems. Startup founders are not free, they just operate in a larger system, namely human society.
It is orders of magnitude harder to cut yourself free from society. And more orders of magnitude harder to cut yourself free from earth’s ecosystem.