A lot is happening in the world and in our industry but I am doing all I can to be part of the cure, not the cancer.
This gives me peace of mind and helps me adapt regardless of if YC backs me or not. I'm moving to Palo Alto regardless, just being in the zip code alone will be enough at this point.
The ideal IMO is single breadwinner households with a two story house and one car and decent public transportation. Single breadwinner is particularly important - many families grow up with both parents absent for much of their lives. They don't learn what love is and this leads to broken families and crime as their children don't have a good framework.
Inequality also causes a lot of political distortion. When the rich get richer, they try to hold power. They spend more, debt goes out of control. The poor are treated like they deserve to be poor. Bad work ethic becomes the norm for this society. Increased debt and spending hits a point where the ROI is negative. The poor become increasingly desperate and murderous. Wars trigger. The empire overextends. The inability to pay debts result in bank runs. And this pattern repeats itself again and again in nearly every fallen empire.
No amount of technological advances or wealth helps if there's runaway inequality.
History is full of very useful devices that only improved the lives of a few people; while also full of mediocre devices that were widely adopted due to very good marketing.
I'm interpreting "can't fail" as "guaranteed to succeed one way or another", here.