I reckon there’s just as many programmers that want to work siloed away in a private office as there are those (like me) that prefer an open plan. I think a lot of this “abstract concepts stacked into a glorious philosophy” nonsense is just jerking oneself off about how smart we are.
There’s no agreed-upon definition of middle class. If there was going to be, it’s certainly not a mathematical definition like that though, it’s an emotional one.
Yeah I was trying to convey there are successful businesses that are broadly maintaining and there are rocketships (and everything in between) and we should expect them to be valued differently and have different risk profiles. So the observation (100x! That’s dumb!) is not rational.
There’s plenty of successful businesses chugging along growing at about the rate of inflation. It’s really hard to grow a business at 10 or 500 times that rate.
Why would it be surprising to value the latter kind of business higher than the former?