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Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by loblollyboy »

criddell wrote: post #29
eaenki wrote: post #9

Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other) My solution is: take a…

If I had been given $1 million when I was 22 to build something, the world would have a pretty awesome Honda Civic with a flamethrower on the front, a 40" subwoofer in the hatch, and a dial to change the camber angle of the wheels on the fly.

The Honda Sivickk

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by eaenki »

chii wrote: post #38
eaenki wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn’t sound far fetched tho, which would be the main requirement

What is far fetched in your opinion?

Anything that’s meant to bring a x10 improvement in how fast or far humans move, how fast humans can learn and communicate, how long humans live, any creature’s freedom, environment cleanliness

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by inimino »

easytiger wrote: post #19
eaenki wrote: post #9

Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other) My solution is: take a…

Unbelievably childish idea which would be trivial to gamify. You only have to look at the industrialised corruption of public tenders for legitimate needs in Africa for a glimpse of human nature.

> Unbelievably childish idea

Easy, tiger. Maybe you can show off your big-boy wisdom by suggesting a better idea rather than just shooting this one down.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by easytiger »

zzzcpan wrote: post #36
easytiger wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect it another millenial fantasy much like basic income et al I suspect giving people with no life experience, exposure to failure or real life dynamics will end badly. The single digit number of success stories in limited domains aren't representative of any real meaning

Giving people money at minimum redistributes wealth, so it cannot possibly be any worse, than letting wealth concentrate.

It's a slippery slope as to whom you disenfranchised to redistributed that cash: but it will inevitably be a large group of people in the middle, not the minority elite you sold the policy on.

If some people can't accumulate something they can't do bigger things as creators or create bigger markets as consumers.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by eaenki »

claudiawerner wrote: post #39
eaenki wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s way more people complaining about expensive or poor education around the world than lack of growth capital for their far fetched science research / companies So I would deem it to be under appreciated by the general public

Wouldn't that follow from the fact that there are way more people concerned with the state of education (because everyone must be educated) than there are people who have ideas for far fetched science research and companies? Education is viewed (rightly in my opinion) as an intrinsic good. Somebody's far fetched idea for a company isn't.

Well, it could be equally appreciated if all those humans longing for better/cheaper education realized how much better their life because they can learn literally anything for free with a tap/click because someone runs Google/YT, which to take off required some growth capital (an ironic example in this context, yes)

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by easytiger »

inimino wrote: post #43
easytiger wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unbelievably childish idea which would be trivial to gamify. You only have to look at the industrialised corruption of public tenders for legitimate needs in Africa for a glimpse of human nature.

> Unbelievably childish idea Easy, tiger. Maybe you can show off your big-boy wisdom by suggesting a better idea rather than just shooting this one down.

I guess you didn't read the test of the comments then. I perfectly justified my comment, what have you contributed

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by human20190310 »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #8

Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work.

> Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work.

Man that is 180 degrees from my perception. Opportunity is often declined because a failed inventor (and most inventors fail) looks like someone who got nothing done. It looks like non-work.

Upper-middle class westerners can get away with this, because they've got enough capital to weather the period of speculative effort, and when it fails, they've got enough connections to get paid employment afterward.

A poorly capitalized, poorly connected person who messes around in a shed for two years and produces a pile of non-functional junk has a much harder time getting back into the game afterward, and they know this going in.

Not everyone can afford to be seen failing.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by journalctl »

eaenki wrote: post #9

Imo Education is overvalued, Capital is under appreciated, And, Because Capital is trapped into networks, that Capital is squandered among an infinite array of companies employing the talent and producing products that don’t make you, or the planet, better, healthier, smarter or happier. (Apple’s SJ era, Google until 2014~ and Tesla fit the useful smarter happier paradigma, and not many other) My solution is: take a…

More money for the rich people. Groundbreaking.

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by nscalf »

PostOnce wrote: post #15
petra wrote: post #2

How many talented people , in advanced economies, with good technical degrees , do take part in inventing important stuff ? Very few. Educating more kids and having more "ideas" won't change that. We're not lacking ideas. We're lacking the right incentives to make ideas happen.

Everything is a hassle. Building permits, operating licenses, legal compliance, etc. All those things arguably exist for good reasons, but it's a huge hurdle to doing anything useful. I can't have a 20 foot radio tower in town, I can't subdivide smaller than 10 acres outside of town, I can't build any facility out there to operate the experimental tower without building permits, radio licenses, compliance with tracki…

On this topic, I felt this while looking into building a healthcare startup. HIPAA seemed like some goosebumps character, don’t say it’s name 3 times or else you’re in violation.

Not only are hurdles a pain, they’re not easily understood.

Edit: beetle juice, not goosebumps

Re: Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

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Post by inimino »

wallace_f wrote: post #20
eaenki wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the US is the major superpower in good part because of Cisco, Bell Labs, Fairchild, Intel, Apple, Lockheed, Google etc.

Are we speaking military expenditure, basic research, or entrepreneurialism? I'm also uncomfortable of this suggested idea about American exceptionalism. We have been bested by foreign competition despite our superior economic resources and liberty. I mean, we had to completely begin shifting gears away from public, politicized development in the launch market when our best option became hitching rides with one of ou…

That's because we suck at politics, not space. America is not just exceptional, it is unique.
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