The rise of the deluded class who think being rich is more important than any other goal.
This is a thing for as long as human civilisation exists.
The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you adopt this perspective? Was it taught at your school or $religion?
I adopted it by growing up poor to immigrant parents who had to work day and night to provide for me the best life they could. Having goals other than financial well being is a luxury. That doesn't mean it's not attainable or shouldn't be pursued, it just means that as a practical matter one should first get their finances in order, have some means of providing for themselves and their loved ones, and then once that'…
I told this joke at my father's funeral. He grew up poor but he had a different mindset and I think it speaks to his character and what he instilled in me:
"A successful business man from New York goes on vacation in a Mexican seaside town. He takes a walk down to the beach mid morning and sees a fisherman coming in with his catch. 'Wow, those are some beautiful fish. Tell me, what will you do the rest of the day?'
The fisherman replies, 'I will take my fish to the market, go home and take a nap, have lunch, play with my children for a bit, then go into town and drink wine and play music with my friends, and finally go home in the evening and make love to my wife.'
The business man replies, 'But if you stayed out all day catching fish you could make far more money!'
The fisherman says, 'well, then what?'
'You could buy another boat and hire some of the young men in town to fish for you and then start making an even bigger profit!'
The fisherman says, 'well, then what?'
'You could open a cannery by the dock and process the fish to be packaged and sold to other cities in other markets and make even more money!'
The fisherman says, 'well, then what?'
'You could retire to a small seaside town, do a little fishing in the morning, go home and take a nap, play with your children, play music with your friends, drink some wine, and go home to make love to your wife.'
Re: The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee
#14So let me get this straight, in this article we have:
- One guy selling shovels (AI “tools”) to clueless people
- Another guy who started and then folded his business in two months
- A chatGPT wrapper (it’s literally called chatPRD)
This is our evidence of the rise of solo million dollar companies? There are surely businesses out there but is AI really the driving reason here?
I’m convinced there is an entire sector of AI now built on scamming clueless people into thinking they can build their own AI B2B SaaS and purchasing tools & “things” without realizing building the product was always the easiest part.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I adopted it by growing up poor to immigrant parents who had to work day and night to provide for me the best life they could. Having goals other than financial well being is a luxury. That doesn't mean it's not attainable or shouldn't be pursued, it just means that as a practical matter one should first get their finances in order, have some means of providing for themselves and their loved ones, and then once that'…
I told this joke at my father's funeral. He grew up poor but he had a different mindset and I think it speaks to his character and what he instilled in me: "A successful business man from New York goes on vacation in a Mexican seaside town. He takes a walk down to the beach mid morning and sees a fisherman coming in with his catch. 'Wow, those are some beautiful fish. Tell me, what will you do the rest of the day?' T…
Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the terrible toll it takes on their body.
Those fisherman in your story die at a conservative rate of about 30,000 per year [1], and that's just from drowning. There are villages in the very Mexico your joke makes fun of with large populations of paralyzed thirty year olds due to spine injuries or untreatable permanent muscle pain, rates of skin cancer three times higher than indoor workers and eyes wrecked from clouded corneas and cataracts due to years of glare coming off the water.
And that's the physical toll on fishermen, there's also the economic burden of the fact that the guys actually doing the fishing don't own their boats are in an almost perpetual debt to middleman, which is why fisher "men" often also have to include their wives and kids in the occupation to help out... and of course since there's no insurance, if one of them dies the household's income goes to zero that same afternoon.
But yeah man... nice joke... I'm sure it really instilled a great sense of moral character in you.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03085...
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I told this joke at my father's funeral. He grew up poor but he had a different mindset and I think it speaks to his character and what he instilled in me: "A successful business man from New York goes on vacation in a Mexican seaside town. He takes a walk down to the beach mid morning and sees a fisherman coming in with his catch. 'Wow, those are some beautiful fish. Tell me, what will you do the rest of the day?' T…
Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the terrible toll it takes on their body. Those fisherman in your story die at a conservative rate of about 30,000 per year [1], and that's just from drowning. There are villages in the very Mexico your joke makes fun of with large populations o…
The point of the story is to know the difference between “enough” and a compulsion to achieve that your burden keeps you from enjoying your life.
I hope some day you can appreciate it.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I told this joke at my father's funeral. He grew up poor but he had a different mindset and I think it speaks to his character and what he instilled in me: "A successful business man from New York goes on vacation in a Mexican seaside town. He takes a walk down to the beach mid morning and sees a fisherman coming in with his catch. 'Wow, those are some beautiful fish. Tell me, what will you do the rest of the day?' T…
Yeah it's a nice and pleasant story, assuming you've never actually met or seen the working or living conditions that most of the fisherman in your story actually live in and the terrible toll it takes on their body. Those fisherman in your story die at a conservative rate of about 30,000 per year [1], and that's just from drowning. There are villages in the very Mexico your joke makes fun of with large populations o…
It's actually a reposted story, it's not original.
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#19So let me get this straight, in this article we have: - One guy selling shovels (AI “tools”) to clueless people - Another guy who started and then folded his business in two months - A chatGPT wrapper (it’s literally called chatPRD) This is our evidence of the rise of solo million dollar companies? There are surely businesses out there but is AI really the driving reason here? I’m convinced there is an entire sector…
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#20This smells like it was hallucinated by chatgpt.
Perhaps AI truly is sentient now; the desire to be wanted and necessary is very human.
Or, perhaps it wasn't hallucinated by chatgpt but by the PR team at openai.