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argeetoday at 10:34 AM1 replyview on HN

I don’t think John Carmack likes to tell people what to do, regardless of wealth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170052


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swiftcodertoday at 1:45 PM

I'm not sure that he doesn't like to, so much as that the position he ended up in as a result of the Oculus acquisition had no actual authority attached to it. He was functionally a glorifier adviser, to trot out at trade shows (and reading between the lines, this was a pretty frustrating position to end up in - he'd rather have had a real job, even if it was to build something he didn't fully agree with)