The story of the garage, again and again. I think it's the umpteenth time I've read the same story: Gates' garage, poor Zuckerberg and his problems with girls, Emilio Botín's tiny bank, etc. Then you start scratching the surface, and you find In-Q-Tel behind Zuckerberg and Amazon, the money from the City behind Botín, or the family fortune of Gates and Elon.
It is part of a massive process of learned helplessness, very typical of capitalist epistemology, through which people are convinced that they are not millionaires because they have not been brave enough, or because they have not had clear priorities. Applied to social psychology, we have this other monstrosity called "positive psychology" by Martin Seligman, who in turn created the concept of learned helplessness (which I would call induced), by which the individual's happiness is isolated from their social conditions, so that if one is not happy, it is because one does not want to.#USNonFarmPayrollReport
It is part of a massive process of learned helplessness, very typical of capitalist epistemology, through which people are convinced that they are not millionaires because they have not been brave enough, or because they have not had clear priorities. Applied to social psychology, we have this other monstrosity called "positive psychology" by Martin Seligman, who in turn created the concept of learned helplessness (which I would call induced), by which the individual's happiness is isolated from their social conditions, so that if one is not happy, it is because one does not want to.#USNonFarmPayrollReport