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Post by moandcompany »

kurthr wrote: post #118
moandcompany wrote: post #83

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The company name of "Samsung" originates from the founder's admiration of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, known as "keiretsu" and their place in its economy; he hoped that his company would also endure as a shining symbol in the sky, like stars. Mitsubishi means three stars in Japanese language. Samsung the company started as something resembling a dry goods market.

I thought Mitsubishi was 三菱 for Three Diamonds? Seems to go better with their log. Mitsuboshi, 三つ星, would I think be for three stars, particularly the stars of Orion's belt. "According to Samsung's founder, the meaning of the Korean hanja Samsung (三星) is three stars." https://news.samsung.com/global/20-things-you-didnt-know-abo...

Technically correct is the best kind of correct. Symbolically, in this context, they were seen as diamonds in the sky, aka stars :)

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Post by jillyboel »

norir wrote: post #76
piyuv wrote: post #67

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I see all these rich-famous people, having all the money for all the best care in the world, dying in 50s-60s and I get more and more anxious.

I have the opposite reaction.

If you want to die you don't have to wait for it

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by nine_k »

kurthr wrote: post #118
moandcompany wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The company name of "Samsung" originates from the founder's admiration of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, known as "keiretsu" and their place in its economy; he hoped that his company would also endure as a shining symbol in the sky, like stars. Mitsubishi means three stars in Japanese language. Samsung the company started as something resembling a dry goods market.

I thought Mitsubishi was 三菱 for Three Diamonds? Seems to go better with their log. Mitsuboshi, 三つ星, would I think be for three stars, particularly the stars of Orion's belt. "According to Samsung's founder, the meaning of the Korean hanja Samsung (三星) is three stars." https://news.samsung.com/global/20-things-you-didnt-know-abo...

菱 is "water chestnut", a nut that actually is spiky, the figures are a stylization of that.

菱形, that is, "water chestnut-shaped" is indeed used for what's called "diamond-shaped" in English, maybe hence the confusion.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by [deleted] »

slightwinder wrote: post #89
SirMaster wrote: post #71

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Do you actually know anything about his life? I don't know how you can make that assumption at all.

No, I don't, which is why I wrote it's "my assumption". What I know is the life of managers, high performers, Korean culture, and that he died too young. People in that position usually have an awful work/live-balance, too much stress, not enough time for their own personality and self-fulfillment because of a toxic environment. The average life expectancy in South Korea seems 82.68 years. So he died nearly 20 years…

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Post by m4rtink »

moandcompany wrote: post #83
yard2010 wrote: post #72

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I wonder if they had 3 CEOs because the name means 3 stars in korean

The company name of "Samsung" originates from the founder's admiration of Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi, known as "keiretsu" and their place in its economy; he hoped that his company would also endure as a shining symbol in the sky, like stars. Mitsubishi means three stars in Japanese language. Samsung the company started as something resembling a dry goods market.

I thought Mitsubishi means 3 diamonds ?

https://www.mitsubishielectric.com/en/about/history/logo/log...

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

astrange wrote: post #120
piyuv wrote: post #67

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I see all these rich-famous people, having all the money for all the best care in the world, dying in 50s-60s and I get more and more anxious.

Healthcare doesn't do very much compared to not doing the unhealthy things in the first place, and being rich lets you buy a lot of unhealthy things.

on the flipside -- avoiding unhealthy things, especially environmental health factors like carcinogens and microplastics, often requires a certain level of wealth.

Re: Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died

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Post by rayiner »

yhavr wrote: post #53
rayiner wrote: post #42

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Is that an improvement, or is it just more of a western mentality? I was raised by asian parents (who had no life of their own), and my wife was raised by Anglo American parents (who “put more focus on their own life”). And from my perspective as a child, I’d rather have my upbringing than her’s. And I’m happy to pay it forward and do for my kids what my parents did for me. I think “choices” are vastly overrated. I d…

> I don’t think my kids would be happy if I quit my high paying job to pursue my dreams or whatever Wasting life on a lifestyle one doesn't enjoy, just to raise another generation of life-wasters? I don't get this ponzi scheme at all.

What do you “enjoy”—and more importantly, why do you think you enjoy it? I suspect enjoyment is mostly socialized, and we enjoy or don’t enjoy what our culture tells us should be enjoyable or not enjoyable.

Prior to my dad’s generation, virtually everyone in my home country was a subsistence farmer. Most people still are. Are their lives less “enjoyable” than some childless millennial pursing his dreams of traveling the world?

I don’t think that, on average, the asians I know (south asians, to be fair) are less happy than the Americans I know. They just derive enjoyment and contentment from different sources.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

bluGill wrote: post #60
Workaccount2 wrote: post #44

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Just a heads up, this only works well if you have a nice cushion of cash to do it on. Someone with 30% tech ability will easily out-earn someone with 100% ranching ability. And have way more free time. And live way more comfortably. Don't be fooled, the greenest grass is in the tech sector (and finance too).

Ranchers make far more money than you think. They have to manage years where they are losing $100,000 per month, but the good years they make more than enough to make up for that. The hard part is getting started. You can't make a ranch work on just a little bit of land, you need thousands of acres of land in an area where you can get to all those plots every day. Getting bank loans on that means most ranchers start…

>At 60 they have paid off most of the land which is now worth millions and so are rich by any measure in ways most tech jobs cannot get to

A person with the drive and intelligence to start ranching at 20 and put in 80 hours weeks in their youth could have done well in tech too, socking away $100k or more in tax advantaged retirement accounts, all the while having PTO and weekends.

Also, most people like to leave near urban areas with access to airports and a variety of grocery stores and kids' activities and schools filled with kids of other high achievers.

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