I think replies to this comment miss the point. The author is stating that the "YC model" -- which falls under capitalism -- is generally incapable of fostering the development of society in any meaningful way.
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Nothing, actually. I'd rephrase the parent comment.
There is in fact a fixed (somewhat small) probability that replication ends up in a mutation. But looking at the continuous replication going on in our cells as a Bernoulli process, you can find a number N such that there is a probability of Q (say 99%) that a mutation happened before the Nth replication.
If it's not malice, then it's linguistic incompetence.
We continue to feel incredibly uncomfortable about playing the role of content arbiter and do not plan to exercise it often. Some have wrongly speculated this is due to some conception of the United States' First Amendment. That is incorrect. First, we are a private company and not bound by the First Amendment. Second, the vast majority of our customers, and more than 50% of our revenue, comes from outside the United States where the First Amendment and similarly libertarian freedom of speech protections do not apply. The only relevance of the First Amendment in this case and others is that it allows us to choose who we do and do not do business with; it does not obligate us to do business with everyone.
That said, I think your point doesn't prove those businesses good to have.
That's entirely their problem. Compliance with the law wouldn't require user-hostile "code" (I think you meant UI) if the business model wasn't user-hostile in the first place. It wouldn't hurt their business if their business was reasonable.