A bad thing with some positive side effects is not a good thing. Wildfire is bad, too frequent wildfires will turn forest into savannah. I didn't see where this part of the analogy was discussed.
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#202A bad thing with some positive side effects is not a good thing. Wildfire is bad, too frequent wildfires will turn forest into savannah. I didn't see where this part of the analogy was discussed.
It is not, because SV people use shallow metaphors from areas they don’t understand, to gain publicity.
But that was the same thought for me. The other totally missed aspect: a fire kills all life in area.
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Isn't getting wages in a wealthy country so that you can afford a multiple of work hours from poorly-paid people elsewhere inherently living off other people?
If one makes more as a software developer than a bus driver, it doesn't seem like location was the factor Isn't the logical extension that everyone lives off other people? This was basically the point of "you didn't build that" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that )
you want to live off another people to some degree. single farmer can feed hundreds - there is no need for everyone to do everything. which of course raises societal fairness and trust issues
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Bro, not everyone has daddy to give them the down payment to buy anything remotely affordable in SV.
Bro, I can tell you haven’t even tried. Talk to a mortgage advisor.
I’ve been trying for the last decade boomer. Housing keeps going up and my salary keeps staying the same. It’s to the point where a 30 year mortgage will take me to 80 years old. Where a down payment would cost me a decade of saving and nothing but saving. No life, no food, no other bills.
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> if you’re making engineer money, SV & big tech engineer money. Majority of engineering fields do not make that kind of money to retire at 50. Comfortable compared to the rest of the country, sure.
When you can retire depends on how little you need. Though, of course, if you're living from investment income you should be aware you're living off the work of other people.
It's just slavery with extra steps
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Rushing to get on board something that looks like it might be the next big thing is often short-sighted. Some recent examples include Windows XP: Tablet Edition and Google Glass.
That's like saying that gambling is shortsighted. It depends entirely on the odds as to whether or not it's wise , but "shortsighted" implies that making the bet precludes some future course of action.
Maybe if you have near-infinite wealth like Google or Microsoft you aren't precluding future choices. For most economic actors, making some bets means not making others.
Companies that are hastily shoehorning AI into their customer support systems could instead devote resources to improving the core product to reduce the need for support.
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Isn’t social security living off the backs of other people too?
Childhood too, no? Maybe it turns out life was the original "pyramid scheme"
Childhood was that new car smell and your parents dreaming of the kind of equity they’ll get only to get frustrated with all the maintenance.
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I think maybe that was implied, considering the topic of conversation and website we’re on. That said if you’re making $250k+ a year and not on track to retire by 50, seriously please open a retirement calculator and figure out what you need to do to get there.
There are a whole lot of people here who work in the tech industry but aren't working in SV. There are even a decent number who aren't in the tech industry at all.
I can back you up on that.
I regularly frequent HN, and even comment from time to time, but I don't work in tech nor do I make bank. I'm a cashier at a gas station. Lol. I'm lucky if I make $16000 a year after taxes.