>"The world would be a much better place if less people tried to build startups."
fewer people
I really don't want to be a grammar nazi, but starting off with an error in the very first sentence made me less interested in reading the rest of the article.
Yes, I realize that English grammar is changing, that countable/uncountable distinctions are less important than they used to be, and that "less + a countable noun" doesn't sound bad to everyone anymore. But to some of us, it looks like it was written by a struggling high school student. There are so, so many things to read on the internet that readers can be driven off by minor blemishes at the beginning of a piece.
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>"The world would be a much better place if less people tried to build startups."
fewer people
I really don't want to be a grammar nazi, but starting off with an error in the very first sentence made me less interested in reading the rest of the article.
Yes, I realize that English grammar is changing, that countable/uncountable distinctions are less important than they used to be, and that "less + a countable noun" doesn't sound bad to everyone anymore. But to some of us, it looks like it was written by a struggling high school student. There are so, so many things to read on the internet that readers can be driven off by minor blemishes at the beginning of a piece.