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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
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 00:34:08; mircea_popescu: you don't get
to say what you'd like it
to be like.
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: 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.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oris it just
the
thing chicklets derping on facebook and calling
themselves designers favour ? << Largely
this. I know a person who "Does Video" for a and I am not making
this up: "Storytelling Consultancy" or at least he did. Not sure atm what
that douche is doing.
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: doesn't look like him
to me, but hey. danielpbarron is it or ain't it ?
williamdunne: In my defence
though,
two bitcoiners who look pretty similar
mircea_popescu: williamdunne folk with beards all look
the same
to you don't
they
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 00:06:08; 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: 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"