they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.
you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.
i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.
i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.
let’s leave it at that then.
perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.
“when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you” - ayn rand (atlas shrugged)
If you don’t believe me I don’t have time to convince you.
Your greatest growth comes from your lowest moments.
“It is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life.
The only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.” — BeautyOfSaas
If you're a naturally anxious person, I recommend pursuing a high stress career path where at least you'll be compensated for anxiety you're going to have anyways.
Massive example of the new system colliding with the old system which are completely incompatible with each other.
Also funny note is on AI, it’s going to get adopted faster than any technology before it but there still is a massive learning curve for this tech. And when something is new people don’t always except it immediately with open arms. From what we’ve seen in the past it takes war and dramatic pain for change.
Gunpowder, planes, the atom bomb all imposed from the pain of war. Pain drives change, not features. Think back to online work which was forced on us by Covid, dramatic change comes from force fear and pain.
As Bruce Wayne famously said “People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol… as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”
Apathy is a state of indifference or the suppression of emotions like passion, excitement, or concern. Aka getting people to give a fuck!
*New Lecture*
Stanford @CS153Systems '26, Session 8
The Compute Behind Intelligence with Jensen Huang from @nvidia
full link in comment - this clip is just the one where he talks about tomatoes
It seems to me the only way to make money is by either talking to strangers over and over on the phone, in person and online or being one of the smartest engineers in the world and building something the other genius people before us never could… i’ll stick to calling people instead…
I overheard a successful business man talking to a younger one that was saying his advice was boring.
The older replied “you know what’s exciting? Poverty! Extremely exciting. Never a dull moment!”
Always remembered that.
Maybe it’s the Gen-Z in me, but i fully don’t care about privacy. I am post-privacy. I am giving OpenAI access to all of my finances, all of my health data, everything, I don’t care anymore