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mircea_popescu: e split-second right before fight, there's not enough brain in any skull that ever passed the woman's middle to manage such ample feats. some try, but why should i take amphetamine today to compensate for having been lazy a decade ago ?
mircea_popescu: the discussion re poker, EXACTLY same thing. once the buildup went away... no further point to playing.
mircea_popescu: every gram of sweat off my brow, every keystroke magnified thousandfold by the passive value of accumulated history.
mircea_popescu: the problkem is this : your fishing today is in no way improved by your fishing yesterday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the sea is rich ; but the fisherman's stuck playing a loser game.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet the function remained, half the kids born in berlin 1946 were russian.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem with "modern war", that its charming quality of yore became quite grotesque.
mircea_popescu: other team's cheerleader bus, au naturel. exactly what teh airmen meant by "tailhookers all weather attack" fliers dumped on area colleges.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it never went. see... take say the early greek wars. those dudes did essentially a society game : the men stripped and cockwrestled on a field on a sunday. the "defeat" of the defeated was a two phase game. phase 1, where their line broke. phase 2, most important, where THEIR WOMEN spread out for THE OTHER GUYS. because fuck you loser. exactly how college football worked when it worked, you mean means you get the
mircea_popescu: (really, nobody ever wonders how come the fishermen are always the poorest demographic ? the sea is so very rich!)
mircea_popescu: the lido gets sanded. this is not up to venice to prevent. end of story. trying to live off civilization is exactly like trying to live off fishing, or off playing double-or-nothing at the casino.
mircea_popescu: which is why the british empire COULDNT prevent its own demise. nor the current one. nor any other "highly organized civilised crowd".
mircea_popescu: it's 100% "making the sun raise" by gesturing wildly at 5:15 am
mircea_popescu: diana_coman point isn't that it extracts, point is that it doesn't, not really. that's what i'm saying, that the whole "whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds" is really VERY vulnerable, because the high organization doesn't ACTUALLY cause or control the extraction.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform natural indolence and psychological comfort seeking, i guess. unspoken because defensive.
mircea_popescu: were the ww2 generals fighting ww1, they'd have ALL been great military minds
mircea_popescu: yes, were you living in the time of your parents, the strategy you came up with would have worked. you're not.
mircea_popescu: the one you're looking at, whatever it may be, won't turn out to be the exception, either.
mircea_popescu: this is how earth has worked for 5k+ years, no exceptions known.
mircea_popescu: by the time the plebs figure out "where the party is", the party just moved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing about the usd makes it best. no, it's dollars for the same reason "eat at mcdonalds" -- worst horse in glue factory.
mircea_popescu: in the specific sense that by the time "you figure it out" they're gone. today, everyone wants to go to college. today it's too late to go to college. everyone wants a 401k ? guess what... too late to. and so on.
mircea_popescu: there's no fundamental reason for nicaraguan working abroad to save in dollars ; there was no fundamental reason for indian to think his kid must go to school in london. smoke and mirrors, and those are terrible basis for one's life
mircea_popescu: everything else... just trying to. lasts while it lasts.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman that the republic is the only economically stable thing -- the extraction of the smart.
mircea_popescu: (anyone remember the derpage early 2000s in the same venues that these days discuss "toxic facts" and "russian hackers" ?)
mircea_popescu: BECAUSE india credited london, THEREFORE the ~pretense~, idle and basless, of british empire.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman except here's the biter : the "civilized crowds" only ever survives (briefly) as an extraction engine.
mircea_popescu: so... you wanna work self-managedly, and are rich enough to afford it, great! not rich enough to afford it... stfu. pick one and only one.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously in the particular case of "make crypto bit for eulora" the problem evidently is that such an item is more complex than what worker usually workers. this is true, but also it was your idea, blocking also that out.
mircea_popescu: but you can't argue both ends. it can't be "oh, there's no jobs" and ALSO "i'm not doing the jobs". unemployment office kicks you out, and so does everyone else, for good reason.
mircea_popescu: either way, low output means low value and dubious humanity. that's capitalism.
mircea_popescu: if you're too poor to ownership share, need to be paid in cash, that means no options and no decisions and off to work whore.
mircea_popescu: if you're rich enough to make your own decisions, good, make shit on your own time and in your own way, that's ACTUALLY VALUABLE, get paid via ownership share.
mircea_popescu: all of it, however wrapped, however excused, it's the same thing : we here in white man world are incapable of doing anything useful and don't wish to see why this'd make any difference.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the dude with fucking options and self-determinations as to who he wants to work with.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter just as recently, some german dork.
mircea_popescu: recall that schmuck with the french isp, which upon examination turned out to be 0% isp and 100% a vehicle for the inept vanities and worldviews of a few idle and overcomfortable schmucks ?
mircea_popescu: why. who the fuck are they, and who the fuck am i, and who adapts to whom ?
mircea_popescu: ima, dontcha know, follow the funnel they constructed, like everyone's got an apple concept store.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp... really... i can't do anything, not usefully, not well, not within pre-glacial timeframes, not... not..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but otherwise -- everything's sough. you got tits ? make money. you can code ? make money. you can draw ? make money. you "got relations" / can pr/whatever the fuck you got ? MAKE MONEY!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem's the 3rd world whore's attitude, as described in that friday piece.
mircea_popescu: so... no. white man is lazy and stupid, in whatever order. the problem's not the lack of jobs.
mircea_popescu: nobody in his line of work has EVER made a bitcoin's worth in one year no matter what they did. but does he have enough sense to go... hmmm... i'll treat this as an advance, and use it to finance my supposedly useful work coming back with deliveries worth at least 10x that, because thaty's how useful i am, and see what happens
mircea_popescu: at least when i pour it into the ground, i know what i'm doing with it as i do it.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd much rather pour a coupla bitcents into the ground instead of paying "hiring experts" etcetera. by very far.
mircea_popescu: has it yet been A YEAR since the discussion of hiring a motherfcucking chinese office girl was tabled ?
mircea_popescu: the amount of jobs awaiting workers exceeds the amount of availavble workers by a factor never before seen in human history ; not even during the saudi reign 20 years ago. not even in china. nowhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no difference. artists dun wanna work, ie ON TIME and TO SPEC and ON WHAT THEY'RE TOLD TO just like erryone else.
mircea_popescu: ie, it'd have been nice to have this item done last year as per original discussions. but whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you personally for instance
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-27#1591437 ; to quote from teh very boardroom of minigame earlier, "<mircea_popescu> noa. evident ca idealu' ar fi fost ca tata asta sa fi fost gata facuta din 2016, cum discutasem initial cu stan. da'... sufletu'."
☝︎ mircea_popescu: we have tons. starting with "fix your tits, get 0.02 btc" and from there on.
mircea_popescu: i've been trying to hire a bunch of artists for what, 5 years now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !~later tell apeloyee hey, do you want a job working for minigame ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the "think of it as heat" mental experiment imo has the great advantage of clearing the mind of all sorts of bizarro world "nsa is cool" assumptions about "electromagnetic signature", a magical property of radiation to "know who its daddy is" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: (teh carrier, 8x8 artillery truck uses a 40-L diesel engine or somesuch)
mircea_popescu: anyway. the general point here being that fox hunt a LOT more difficult than everyone ever expects, be it alf, pentagon, etcetera.