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mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, as near as i can tell plan was never to "use" in any meaningful sense, certainly not anything beyond "these are '''winners'''' of
tournament market, aspire, aspire, aspire!"
a111: Logged on 2013-12-15 01:18 mircea_popescu: a
tournament market, like typiocally the 1mn starlets waiting tables in hollywood is there to exploit labour.
a111: Logged on 2018-06-12 20:38 mircea_popescu: ok. let's go back to the original
tournament market, the hollywood studio.
mircea_popescu: ok. let's go back to the original
tournament market, the hollywood studio.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2014-06-19 01:51 asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a
tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors.
Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward," Freeman an
a111: Logged on 2015-06-25 00:49 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.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-13 16:26 asciilifeform: vendors want the 0day
market to be a '
tournament market'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is there some rule that "experts" in anglosphere must be ludicrously inept at their chosen expertise, as per their own lights ? << Yes, if every "expert" sucks then
tournament market doesn't need a very sweet pot for the winrar.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: ANd this is because it turns out public schools really do the
tournament market thing with some jobs.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Phys ed egalitarianism though backstops a
tournament market. Not every PE teacher/coach can be Nick Saban, but they all want to be.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> i have always seen american football as emblematic of usian anti-intellectualism. glorifying concussions, yes. << It's a
tournament, or more a lottery
market deal. It's for the poor kids to fight for the chance to make all the money they'll be able to for four years after the drop out of college in teir senior year
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.
☟︎ ascii_field: who get to not only avoid starvation but live like civilized people (naturally, referring to the winners in the
tournament market, not the chinese grad students here)
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2014 01:51:50; asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a
tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors.
Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward,"
mircea_popescu: a
tournament market, like typiocally the 1mn starlets waiting tables in hollywood is there to exploit labour.
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