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mircea_popescu: i expect change like you expect nonsense. it comes out of young / silly people.
mircea_popescu: you still value what you lost more than what you gain by that loss. you still need stimuli to grow geometrically for subjective sensation to progress arithmetically.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly nothing to change. what'd you change ?
mircea_popescu: do you miss the things that'll be discovered after you die, perhaps ? nobody cares. you happen to have seen telegraph. they saw the complex calculation of how to pi, and counted them very civilised for it. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: so what did not repeat ? the shape of the woman's pants ?
mircea_popescu: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them ?"
mircea_popescu: besides, the discussion in civilisational terms is besides the point. i guarantee that there was an alf in upper egypt bemoaning the vagaries of fate in the following exact terms :
mircea_popescu: you flatter yourself if you imagine there's more difference here than there, to an archeologist so distant in the future.
mircea_popescu: (if for instance your aim is "population", mind that they started on a very narrow base. hard to beat.)
mircea_popescu: also you'll be very hard pressed to argue that 5000 years of egypt were less than 5000 years hence.
mircea_popescu: fortunately or otherwise, few live the millenia required for most of it to wear off.
mircea_popescu: the inventor is in this matter very closely related to the fashion designer.
mircea_popescu: history is precisely an endless loop of the same thing. also, it has to be.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the exact same sort of people sifted to the top in the su as do anywhere else all the time. which is why yeltsin didn't survive and putin did.
mircea_popescu: right. but generally fambly kept the place, for mere conviction. it had to be political-wrathful to dislodge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform prison term didn't dislodge. people came back to their own flats.
mircea_popescu: the people who don't care if they life or die either live or die. the people who do care - end up paying rent to the ones that live.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: then they'll rant and rave about "dupa ce i-a cheltuit vor merita sa devina muncitori ! Nu mai au nici o scuza ca au devenit saraci!"
mircea_popescu: two step process : a) make everyone ACTUALLY carry the burden of being the lord he was seeing himself as and b) allow the scum to shirk away.
mircea_popescu: when plebs "own stock", the problem becomes unsolvable, because the ready answer is, "i can't blame myself, for i'm nothing - so i'll just blame the gods"
mircea_popescu: so, if that guy fucks up, as no doubt he will, his distress is merely amusing from a societal pov. and perhaps instructive., but mostly amusing.
mircea_popescu: hey, they don't pay me $infinity + bonuses + golden dirigibles for nothing.
mircea_popescu: even if through whatever arcana you get it "good enough" for the current context you happen to inhabit, such as your room.
mircea_popescu: you're trying to meld two things together that will never, ever stay put as temperature varies.
mircea_popescu: their needs (represented by copper in this diagram) and the realities of owning stock in a small venture (represented by iron in same) have very different reactions to a change in financial context (represented as temperature)
mircea_popescu: there is absolutely no reason people who make 30 an hour should own stock ; and if they did it certainly shouldn't be yours.
mircea_popescu: imo you're trying to make a copper-iron thermostable alloy.
mircea_popescu: but the alternative is drinking straight crazy from a toilet bowl.
mircea_popescu: the only correct solution is to pay in stock only. you do get alf moaning about his sad fate as an owner of his own fate,
mircea_popescu: the result is that they have to make an endless array of rules to approximate "not entirely fucktarded teen".
mircea_popescu: they didn't want to make a simple "stock ownership for employees is STRICTLY reserved for employees making over 500k a year and over the age of 50" for obvious reasons
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem here, and it's a fundamental problem, is that the derps that get employed aren't usually investor grade.
mircea_popescu: well, it's your fucking toilet paper and what sort of people are these.
mircea_popescu: all of the defense (you know, picking up when people steal toilet paper), none of the offense, none of the good stuff, like making the team not suck dicks.
mircea_popescu: "What are you, you're a secretary, John. Fuck you. That's my message for you."
mircea_popescu: (photodiode interrupted electic firiing, fly under enemy, boom)
mircea_popescu: "As for having fat pets, this shows that they have no concept of portion control. An animal will eat anything you put in front of it." << this is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: uh. weren't q&q quartz timepieces like 10-20 bux since forever ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not THAT implied. most employers of uni derps are unis.
mircea_popescu: actually, that one reporter wasn't bad, however long ago.