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mircea_popescu: "i used to be an entrepreneur but then i took a fatter to the knee"
mircea_popescu: holy shit this fatass notion of equality for some things only.
mircea_popescu: it's that they do not show up for work, they get the same per hour pay (which on the strength of that alone they should not, for the record, as i'm not paying the same an hour the guy who works 16 hours and the gal that works 6.5) and so logically at the end of the year they get less.
mircea_popescu: it's not that they show up to work and still take home less money.
mircea_popescu: "4. You think it’s pretty unfair that women effectively work from 4 November until the end of the year for free because of the gender pay gap; and that female managers “work for free” for nearly two hours a day; and that the pay gap is even wider for women of colour and disabled women."
mircea_popescu: "It’s easier than you think to attract this offensive, sexist label – all you have to do is dare speak out against gender inequality"
mircea_popescu: not their fault you persist in living in a counbtry whichg has decided "coding will work like art works!!1"
mircea_popescu: i know bunches of late 20s earlky 30yos with insurance for the shiot they make
mircea_popescu: they won't do custom jobs for items worth less than maybe 100k or so, but then again fuck you, nobody is going to insure your chewwed gum
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> phun phakt: most american 'home insurance' co. will specifically ~not~ insure any item you built yourself << of course they will.
mircea_popescu: how exactly did the russky govt manage to steal a .org ?
mircea_popescu: beat the shit of the romanians, who tried same but failed utterly.
mircea_popescu: they did a good job actually copying the principles not merelyt the objects, turn out perfectly passible items now.
mircea_popescu: ftr, the estonians got really great at "fake ancient furniture".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wut ?! bathroom was the size of that room o.O
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the "apparently care" you propose has a name.
mircea_popescu: "someone pointed out to mp what that shit's been doing while nobody was looking"
mircea_popescu: derplet's got these feelings almost like he's a thing, "i am a tractor, it makes no sense i can't pull odwn this wall, please explain mechanics to it!"
mircea_popescu: it does "something" and for as long etc, i'll fail to understand why it remains a thing.
mircea_popescu: your argument strikes me of the same exceptionalism "medicine" of 1700 employed. or "religion" of 1800.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno, women i know hate the inept cocksure ones more than the neurotic pay-for-it ones
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's more like ibm. "great american industree - does nothing really"
mircea_popescu: spiral of defeat. a) woman goes out, meets a buncha schmucks ; b) woman starts charging ~100 per dinner date, ensuring that... she will now ONLY meet the schmucks.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, not like anyone doubted cook was gonna sink apple.
mircea_popescu: "as long as the state agrees it's 700, doesn't jack shit matter what they do"
mircea_popescu: in any consumer driven market, the price is the only signal of everything. and you do not give as much as a faint whiff of selling the 1k item for ~20 bux. not ever.
mircea_popescu: chumpatronics is its own science, with its own measures scl, you can't just replace them for gonzo values
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this has nothing to do with wealth (in fact it decreases more in wealthy systems than in poorer ones)
mircea_popescu: anyway : yes as adoption grows (the real kind, not verbal), the average size of the unspent will decrease.
mircea_popescu: because that introduces a border and borders must be policed which costs EVEN MORE money
mircea_popescu: the choice is to either make it microscopic or dilute it with base metal
mircea_popescu: once the empire grows, the size of the coin has to diminish
mircea_popescu: if money were still linked to gold, seeing how there's not that much gold around, you'd be dealing in sub-miligram units.
mircea_popescu: i refer you to your classical history studies. why do you suppose the atom count of gold per monetary item kept decreasing ?
mircea_popescu: and the next day after i start making obscure chinese statements on trilema you run off from home to live in xiang-fuck or some shit
mircea_popescu: but now i write in english and people who know russian read and wtf amd i gonna do.