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mircea_popescu: no, but it is a magical enclave where you gotta be able to find your way out of a paper bag
mircea_popescu: they simply tend to gravitate to places where their dismal means to life are sufficient to survive. "oh i couldn't live in kentucky"
mircea_popescu: just about the magical car you discuss may be at the earlierst delivered
mircea_popescu: the 22 yo beggars are "working hard" at "their social media presence" and don't have access to a car.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don't fuck teens alf. you have nfi what your country's like.
mircea_popescu: actually playing out a penitentiary inmate irl is a bar they have to prepare for.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, none of those schmucks is the intellectual equal of "car ownership"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's exactly my point. none of those schmucks has a car.
mircea_popescu: coupla 20something kids that anyone simply wants to see raped to death. they're the couch surfing, biking, "creative" minds of the tomorrow / "economies of scale of being youtube famous meaning not famous"
mircea_popescu: seen that film btw ? pretty great indictment of ustardian/white youth
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem with this is that nobody in the Housbroken universe actually owns a car.
mircea_popescu: let's discuss things of import! to be prepared in case a windfaul reaches us, with a game-plan! to save africa!
mircea_popescu: but hey, maybe one day germany improves enough to be russia.
mircea_popescu: iirc that ugly fat woman whatever her name is that rules his germans still hasn't obtained the slightest satisfaction for being gangraped by the ustards.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field they have a point. as far as the slave^H^H^H^H^H german is concerned, reminders of the cock up his ass are unwelcome and "toxic" to his emotional well being or w/e
mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be a wonder if i didn't.
mircea_popescu: if every ustard < 40 did a honest day's work, china'd be so fucked.
mircea_popescu: Always remember, dear fiat craptrepreneurs : sucking republican cock is a good start, but always remember to make eye contact! That's where your submission really sinks in, to everyone (and especially to your) benefit." ?
mircea_popescu: ated time and again that they don't really have the intellectual wherewithal to find their way out of the fiat paper bag.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as a Schelling point mostly due to BitBet's i
☟︎ mircea_popescu: |Online culture has often placed emphasis on both social justice and purity—or at the very least, humility.| >>> bwajhahjajaja
mircea_popescu: because cow gotta be milked. otherwise, mastitis. it hurts.
mircea_popescu: heh. and alf blames colleges. looky here alfie : without the college scams, these schmucks would go to youtube to be fleeced.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "She likened trying to get famous through social media to shelling out money for college—in each case, one suffers through hard work and zero-to-negative income in the hopes of a later payout. The difference, Beggs said, is that YouTube is more accessible “because there’s no admissions committee.” The technical term for this is the Dunning Kruger effect, where unskilled individuals believe themselves to be more
mircea_popescu: "The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week, I was stopped for photos six times while perusing comic books in downtown L.A. The next week, I sat faceless in a room of 40 people vying for a menial courier job. I’ve walked a red carpet with $80 in my bank account. Popular YouTube musician Meghan Tonjes said she performed on Vidcon’s MainStage this year to screaming, crying fans without knowing whether she
mircea_popescu: and maybe a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are the cause of his poverty, through the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's not the question. the question is why is mp worth a billion and kim kardashian worth 10 million. when did death threats > nice ass, by 3 degrees of magnitude ? is this allowed by Obama ?
mircea_popescu: sites like Patreon (a Kickstarter-type site that allows for ongoing funding) are at the center of a communal movement to fund “smaller YouTubers.” But that definition gets blurry. Is someone with 50,000 subscribers worth supporting financially? How about 200,000? What if people assume you’re too successful to need money, and you’re too proud to tell them otherwise?"
mircea_popescu: "Platforms like YouTube mirror the U.S. economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube’s “middle class” often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet. Journalists kvell over stars like Swedish gamer Pewdiepie, whose net worth is around $12 million, or comedian Jenna Marbles, who’s worth around $2.5 million. On the other extreme, fan-funding
mircea_popescu: all these "successes" would make more money in plain prostitution in 1995 than they do with their "successful" internet bullshits today. but hey, people would much rather "disbelieve" and carry on with their idiocy than stop and reconsider whether "women's issues" and "pop culture" are a decent use of their productive time.
mircea_popescu: was the #1 topic back in romanian-trilema days, due to the readership being primarily interested in it.
mircea_popescu: and if the consumer doesn't like this situation, that's fine : buy a gun shoot your president.
mircea_popescu: anyone wants to read things, read them when they can. trilema's not a consumer good, the consumer's at trilema's convenience.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and vodka was ~50 cents the bottle, at black market rate.
mircea_popescu: how is this possible! szabo was an intelligent, well read, erudite fellow!
mircea_popescu: except not, especially if they work for a whole year, which everyone prefers to do anyway seeing how winter's not summer.
mircea_popescu: ess they had a securely independent standard of time."
mircea_popescu: "Laborers were, even before the advent of the clock, commonly paid by the day. But how long is a “day”? It couldn’t be just daylight hours; this makes for a longer workday than employer and employer might otherwise agree to, and in northern latitudes it varies quite substantially within a year. With the rather heterogeneous measures of time, employer could cheat the employee out of hours, or vice versa, unl
mircea_popescu: and the introduction of piece rate a magnificent americanism.
mircea_popescu: "Time-rate employment provides a major productivity improvement over servitude or (usually) piece rates." << amusingly, according to the soviets themselves, and the "golden age" romanians too, the main driver of sovieteconomy fail was the timewage.
mircea_popescu: had a god damned two-time engine worth what, 7 hp ? weed whacker level.
mircea_popescu: b) does anyone have any fucking idea how cheap it was ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, a) the trabant was not notoriously ugly. in fact, beats the beetle.
mircea_popescu: contrast, for example, between the notoriously ugly and unreliable Trabant of East Germany and the BMWs, Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagens of West Germany).
mircea_popescu: Thus second main drawback to piece rates is that they motivate the worker to put out more quantity at the expense of quality. This can be devastating. The tendency of communist countries to pay piece rates, rather than hourly rates, is one reason that, while the Soviet bloc’s quantity (and thus the most straightforward measurements of economic growth) was able to keep up with the West, quality did not (thus the
mircea_popescu: there are two kinds of fools in this world, the sort that thinks women are equal to men ; and the sort that thinks women are unequal to men in all things.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking obvious. my slavegirls by a fat margin prefer slavery (which is not servitude just like whales are not fish), and work a lot better than any fucking employees anyone ever had.
mircea_popescu: "The undesirability of servitude, from the point of view of the laborer at least, is obvious. Serfs and slaves faced brutal work conditions, floggings, starvation, very short life spans, and the inability to escape no matter how bad conditions got. "