I reject the addenda and friendly advice shared by candide's
shared essay dropping out of society. There is no merit to
grinning and bearing it while learning financial
responsibility. I've known people from rich families. Many
were deep devotees of Rich Dad Poor Dad The Boardgame *I
imagine the author I'm reponding to also rejects this. The
moral of that board game is that if you loyally support
incumbent big businesses with the daily milling of your
soul, you will graduate from the rat race and become a rent
seeker (just a few more years) (just a few more!). In that
game, people who are janitors or other low class jobs are
lucky, because they can become rent seekers faster due to
lower keeping-up-with-the-Jones social expectations.
I've been thinking about the problems with software.
Software is in great shape, fantastic really. OpenBSD, even
some GNU (or even nonGNU), if you can stomach some Google,
9front... There is everything you could want ready for you,
and it is awesome.
The government here spills money into financial speculators
advertising that their recently hired medium.com parrot
arby's employees will educate the lazy and stupid poor
people into Rich Dad Poor Dad The Boardgame janitors through
a government certificate in Microsoft Powershell. Didn't
work, they're still morally bad and unmotivated, but the
government issued an endorsement to the financial venture,
well there will need to be a business that trains the
trainers in a government accredited training course...
This seems paradoxical. Why when things are- magnificent, is
this training pyramid-of-garbage scheme (sorry, multilevel
marketing-of-garbage scheme backed by government endorsed
loans to the victims) happening?
And I think the answer is that software is like food. To put
two halves into this metaphor McDonalds sells a lot of
burgers, and they are surprisingly not cheap. The deeply
evil and lazy people two paragraphs above in general are
fantastic at making food compared to McDonalds. But people
buy McDonalds instead of paying the unmotivated and stupid
good and local cooks the same damn amount for obviously
better food. At least where I write this, for one it would
be deeply illegal to either pay one of the poor people, or
for the poor person to sell a food product or service, or
for the food to be called food in the protected legal sense
which is really the second half of the metaphor. At least
here it is not explicitly illegal to privately prepare and
eat food yourself in many cases, analogous to how we are on
a ~, and generally have some version of nicely set up,
powerful, inexpensive boxen.
This was by way of saying that grin-and-bear-it,
live-for-the-weekends, don't-be-an-activist are solutions
that are not for our state of affairs. Shit is real.
