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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the dratel example is particularly on point. what that man did was the equivalent of a bitdaytrade "platform".
mircea_popescu: anyway. people who actually magic away problems, in any field, name their own terms.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't give 50k to random unknown schmuck without a wot for the obvious reasons, regardless what they can or could do.
mircea_popescu: apparently they'd have to bake a whole new silicone process.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i'll listen sympathetically to any programmer that can't feed himself ; and i'll be amused at any programmer that "but oprah!". the field's over there, and it takes all comers. don't mind the manure.
mircea_popescu: just as long as it's a meaningless act, carefully sterilized, pointless and ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: because their 2bn is conditionally theirs on the understanding not that it won't get used "for terrorism",
mircea_popescu: not like they can spend two billion to buy a hundred thousand aks and ammo for them and shoot the whole charade into the ground
mircea_popescu: and yes the trillion spent also means five people got two billion a pop give or take to be paraded across the country with a large jam tomorrow sign affixed.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the trillion spent means the govt got to offset 990 billion off another whatever indescript entry in its ledger,
mircea_popescu: and with math, too : if social expenditure for field is one trillion, and the headcount employed is one million, that means one million get to divy up a hundred million, thus making a whooping 100 a head. that's not even the fabled dollar a day.
mircea_popescu: then coders (unlike doctors! or lawyers! and the lawyers would JUMP at the chance, if it were somehow feasible - but so far it's only feasible in banking and finance, mostly) get the option to work for equity, but
mircea_popescu: and so here is the (designed, by the way! deliberately, by the way!) impasse before the free world : one percent of the money spent on $profession actually goes to ~the individual members of $profession~, and then of that, 99% goes to the display monkeys, who are five people, and the remainder however many split the remainder 1%, which generally means they pay to participate.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: might as well say "you programmers don't need any money anyway, look at what google revenue is!"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, THE DOCTOR isn't seeing jack of all that.
mircea_popescu: the same would have been true if they were fighting cancer as is true when they are fighting the usg.
mircea_popescu: the other one is that, the government. yes, fucktards like shrem end up selling the house to pay "the lawyer".
mircea_popescu: there are two overlapping misguiding things here. one is, the tournament market. you wouldn't imagine singer/songwriters are better off than you because britney spears, would you ? nor would you imagine "pundits are rich" because oprah, or limbaugh or whatever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "my grandfather was a senator, and my father made a billion, and i'd better do another line of cock^H^Hke before i think about this too muc"
mircea_popescu: as far as they are concerned, getting an even bummer deal than code monkeys. plus they have the family dynasties stuff to make it more painful.
mircea_popescu: there's no lawyer that walks away with a bn from a successful buyout.
mircea_popescu: generally, the prospect of being a lawyer is strictly speaking dimmer than the prospect of being a programmer.
mircea_popescu: and that's not even counting for the currently alive set.
mircea_popescu: anyway. lawyering is only "different" because of your perception. most lawyers die in debt, still not having paid their college costs
☟︎ mircea_popescu: arguably intellectual problems, such as software, are easier to clean for being virtual rather than physically embodied
mircea_popescu: if your house is fulla shit, the realisation that an idiot shat your floor does not clean it any.
mircea_popescu: this while true, makes the problems not an iota smaller.
mircea_popescu: you're cutting off T on one side with dT on the other side.
mircea_popescu: i am not sure this simplification works as you intend it to.
mircea_popescu: there's no option here, however. no way will be devised where the systematically wrong model can be employed. it's, essentially, what a scam is : the proposition that we've temporarily turned thermodynamics off.
mircea_popescu: generally when people compare the present with the option they imagine, they take selected bits of each.
mircea_popescu: in theory it works out to better pay and better working coinditions than the alternative, but
mircea_popescu: and yes this means people working can end up not making anything. it does. necessarily.
mircea_popescu: this scenario only plays out in your own mind (admittedly poisoned by a lot of interaction with idiots). in reality it's like this : there are more jobs than people. the system where you pay people a salary only works when there are more people than jobs. when there are more jobs than people you essentially create a large excavator of sense on a large mountain of problems, and divy up the results somehow. such as they
mircea_popescu: this is the first seriouys problem we ran into, ever since this globalization paradigm.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem exists because it's global. not because "in this tiny island of rust beltlandia so and so rats".
mircea_popescu: fnance is what it is, its own kind of thermodynamics, off of which it is actually derived.
mircea_popescu: yes, you gotta distribute resources back out somehow, but it can only be via equity.
mircea_popescu: it's simple, really : when jobs < people, you can pay. when jobs > people, you gotta let em volunteer. no other way.
mircea_popescu: you're the one forcing me to use nonsensical terms to humor you
mircea_popescu: yes, i would trade 10 btc for 100bn "worth" of engineering work.
mircea_popescu: forget your own opinion, the thing trades on exchanges, worth what, 100bn ?
mircea_popescu is too old to fall for "progress" and "future" tricks. i'm not paying for that.
mircea_popescu: tyvm. but... what fixed percent of all the money that's ever going to exist is microsoft worth ?
mircea_popescu: o, wait, "actual money" = "fixed percent of all the money that'sd ever going to exist" ?
mircea_popescu: for pay to work as you expect there's a strict requirement that jobs < people.
mircea_popescu: that's the ACTUAL bargaining chip of the sv firms : if you ACTUALLY want us to pay market rate, market rate's infinity and we're paying it. get printing.
mircea_popescu: there's more pixels needing laying down than there are people who can do it. period.
mircea_popescu: and yet <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: as far as these folks are concerned, gentoo may as well be a particle accelerator at dubna, ru
mircea_popescu: really very low bar, in any other time than the present
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude. it's "go do something useful". after interval, person has done something useful.
mircea_popescu: doesn't look like him to me, but hey. danielpbarron is it or ain't it ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne folk with beards all look the same to you don't they
mircea_popescu: there's an endless mountaineous heap of work, and the last time i talked to someone even halfway competent was last week.
mircea_popescu: your ideas of competition come from this world with scarce work and plenty of high skilled folk to do it. this is not the case.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyone can get the mafia to embed an engineer if they have money.
mircea_popescu: why would someone use something other than the car to go shop ? "oh, this is for work!!1"
mircea_popescu: "Pixar does NOT use Apple computers to make 3D for their movies (modeling, animation, render, shaders, etc.). They use Linux, just like everyone else in the industry. Now they might use a Mac to paint a background or texture something but all feature animation is done in Linux (Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Animation, Blue Sky, etc. etc.). That's also true for SFX shops like ILM, Weta, Sony Imageworks, DD, etc. etc. All Lin