At the end of the day, the startup world is about creating opportunity where there was none before. It gets nasty, and even nastier when you realize the only personal recourse you will ever have for being in that world and not getting the opportunity despite doing the work is to go make your own opportunity, with even more work.
If it's crushing your soul to be there, then you really don't belong. That's the long and the short of it.
I personally look at the world of business as a necessary evil, that what makes business evil makes startups especially evil. But no less necessary because of it.
I don't think any attempts to make startups less evil will do anything but just make it more evil. The attempts will fool people into believing that evil has been conquered, when it's just been painted over with lip service.
If it's crushing your soul to be there, then you really don't belong. That's the long and the short of it.
I personally look at the world of business as a necessary evil, that what makes business evil makes startups especially evil. But no less necessary because of it.
I don't think any attempts to make startups less evil will do anything but just make it more evil. The attempts will fool people into believing that evil has been conquered, when it's just been painted over with lip service.