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Comment by AmberShah | Hacker News Reader

As it turns, my kid likes to eat. So, in my oh-so-unique case of having, uh, responsibilities, it would be better for me to have a paying job (even at Goldman Sachs) than to found a startup with zero revenue.

Of course, that's assuming they are XOR, which they are not.

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Don't worry about it. People feel the need to justify every decision they make to the world. The author of this post didn't want to work at GS, he wanted his own company. But he gave up a couple hundred thousand a year to do that, and people made fun of him, so he felt he needed to justify it.

Obviously, there are plenty of people happy collecting their large paycheck every two weeks, or there would be a lot of startups and not a lot of Goldman Sachs.

| Obviously, there are plenty of people happy collecting their large paycheck every two weeks, or there would be a lot of startups and not a lot of Goldman Sachs.

Or their fears and lack of confidence/desire for security overrule their happiness.

Not everyone wants to be a leader. Seriously. It may be hard for you to believe this, as it goes against how you feel, but its true.

I didn't make it a categorical statement. I just have a hard time taking the original author's premise at face value.

Which is exactly what he is doing, justifying and using a third party: "Hey , my kid has to eat" Blind leading the blind.

Yeah, true. I will break the trend and say that I have little-to-no interest in having my own company, and that I like programming and making money. Working for the bank facilitates this.

there would be a lot of startups and not a lot of Goldman Sachs.

There are a lot of startups and there is only 1 Goldman Sachs...

That's quite a literal reading of my statement there.

What I meant to convey was the number of employees that Goldman has (a lot), and how many similar companies there are (BAML, JPM, Citi, ...).

A lot of people have chosen the "peon at a big bank" position, and it's probably not because they think that it will make their life less enjoyable.

Or even peon at a big university. Better hours, less pay.

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