Tbis is 100% true and I wonder how many people realize it.
I work at a big prop shop.
We recruited a guy that was developing medical equipment. Like seriously curing cancer type of shit. Got him lead our FPGA team.
Now, I don’t think he left the medical field because we paid him 10x what he was making. (I’m sure it didn’t hurt).
I think we got him because the stuff he was working on wouldn’t see the light of day for at least 10 years. The FPGA code sees prod the next trading day.
The bureaucracy of medical is just soul crushing .
The money printer we build and run has near zero bureaucracy. This attracts the high IQ competitive guys that really drive innovation. These guy want to see the stuff they build run and win.
There is nowhere else but prop trading that has this fast of a development/money loop.
Thanks. I’m trying to have a good faith debate. I think some social safety nets should exist (like food stamps).
I just think socialism at scale breaks down. I like to think I’m open minded and I’m open to seeing examples of where socialism has really worked well at a large scale and more than social programs.
Capitalism is far from perfect but it is the best system that works at scale.
Socialism will make upward mobility impossible for the vast majority of the population. In most industries there are checks and balances to prevent “winner take all”. And companies need to compete, many a top company has fallen.
But, as they say, you can never beat the government. So there will be no competition, and very shortly after, no innovation. No upward mobility. No one even has punchers chance with solicialism.
Scrolling is pure evil. An hour of brainrot doesn’t just leave a hole where something meaningful could have been but also actively degrades the machinery you’d need to fill that hole.
It corrupts your capacity for sustained attention. Books become harder, conversations feel slower, your own thoughts start to bore you. Over time, the range of things that can hold your interest narrows until you’re left with a shrinking circle of stimulation that only the algorithm can satisfy.
It erodes your relationship to yourself. Curiosity fades. Compassion requires a kind of patient attention that atrophies. You stop wondering what you care about because the question itself feels effortful. What’s left is a stable, “comfortable” numbness. Not only five years subtracted from your life, but a slow hollowing out of the person who would have lived them.
@atensnut It’s more like you take the $500, pocket $400, and give $20 to 5 lazy people.
So you get $400 and net 4 votes. Bonus those 4 votes are really pissed at the guy you stole $500 from because they didn’t get their “fair share”.