Why The 99% Should Protest Against Y Combinator
Do you buy any food at all that is not grown by local organic farmers?  If you do, chances are you have a much stronger business relationship with Monsanto than Paul Graham does.<p>After all, you are directly giving money to a supermarket, which is giving it to a big agribusiness, which either is Monsanto or is a customer of Monsanto.  All these evil things that Monsanto does?  They're done with <i>your</i> money.<p>Contrast that with Paul Graham, who is a partial owner of an investment firm, which invested in a company, which has Monsanto as a customer.  No YCombinator money is going to Monsanto.  Indeed, it's the other way around: Monsanto money is going to a YCombinator company, in exchange for services.  PG's criticism of the original comment was right on.<p>If Monsanto's business practices bother you, factor that into your purchasing decisions.  There are dozens of local organic farmers that would love to have your business.  They usually charge more, because evil is efficient.  Monsanto is not the only beneficiary of their evil ways, though: because of their evilness, millions of Americans spend less on food than they otherwise would.