theendisney
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
You could start a company in a random [poor] country, hire people and pay them a decent salary. Could even opperate at a loss and just pay for it.
Then you can put salary money in peoples pockets for a long time. (They can use that for their gutter too!)
Asking around for ideas what your company should do also sounds reasonable.
But say land mines are in high demand and there is room to pivot into AK-47.
Or you discover there is money in eyeballs on ads.
Its certainly much easier than making the next steam engine.
Its fine to have delusions of grandeur for a few hours in your life. Who knows what each unique person comes up with?
There are no correct answers. It should probably be more of a subjective journey than we like to imagine.
Ultimately you get to decide what you want people to become. Even if you do it in ignorance.
To quote a wise man. If the revolution doesnt have singing and dancing im not comming.
If the wires are hanging out of the wall and someone asks me to switch the power on it reminds me how my old boss almost died then chased the guy with a hammer but collapsed from his injuries before he could kill him. So i disassemble the switchboard. If there is someone like that walking around I don't care how long it takes. Sometimes they get angry I just ignore it. They may also report it to my boss.
RL is different like that but also quite similar.
Half a million years later we are still at it. Innovation is like, rock music, bitcoin mining, minecraft etc
Pretty deep
More interesting, which would make a better entrepreneur in the long run, someone with limited business logic skills who knows how to code or someone who cant code but knows a thing or two about running a business?
A friend of mine competes with a company with a huge office and 200 enployees. He hired a 14 year old who speaks the main suppliers language. Customers place orders, she checks the agenda, she calls the supplier, negotiates the price, calls the clieint and plans the job in the schedule. 10 million euro materials, 5 people for 3 weeks. Etc
Not that i question that reading mostly ai slop for long enough makes you feel dead inside.
Not to long ago i wouldnt have believed what LLMs "learned" today, surely we can make a similar effort with humans if we want to.
Im not suggesting we go back to beating kids with a stick but there might be something equally effective. Lots of unskilled labor is practically a life time of torture. If you ask me we shoyld gradually introduce the torture in stead of making it a surprise. There are better people to ask.
Compared to sewers, drinking water, electricity and roads it seems a rather simple and cheap thing to build.
My commercial isp offers all kinds of packages clearly designed to extract as much money as possible. I cant even see the prices as everything is hidden behind x months discount. From what i remember 200 mbit is 42 and 2000 is 60 but a phone line and tv become available only if you take the faster package and required with the fastest speeds.
So its like one banana for $1 and 10 bananas for $1.50 If you buy just one you cant buy milk, if you buy 10 you also have to buy milk.
Its also been sold 6 times. Unsurprisingly, each time the service and quality noticably declines and the prices go up.
I see their adds everywhere and they sponsor all kinds of things. It suggests the product is overpriced and doesnt sell it self.