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Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by claytongulick »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #5

I wish I didn't have any scruples, I'd be so rich.

I was offered a project to develop a game for this sweet old lady once.

She'd heard that if you made a video game and sold it, you would make a lot of money, so she'd decided to take her life savings, $200k, and hire someone to make a game. She didn't know what kind of game or anything, just "make a game".

I was really worried about her and spent two hours on the phone with her trying to educate her and help her protect herself and her savings.

At the end, she just got sort of mad at me and I could tell she was just going to get someone else to do it.

Was so sad. Wish I could have helped her more.

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by apsurd »

tim-projects wrote: post #26
tweakimp wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

and they are?

Day trader Garbage collector Zoo keeper Tennis player Lifeguard

They're all making a living by telling people the truth that want the truth. The more money they make the more they deviate being solidly in camp #2.

It's an aphorism. I enjoyed it. It's not a proof of the Universe.

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by brailsafe »

tim-projects wrote: post #11

I can already think of 5 jobs this doesn't apply to in the slightest.

These are "ways to get paid", but "jobs" implicitly may or may not be relevant to the topic. If there's no game, politics, or sales aspect whatsoever, which is rarely but not never the case, then it's kind of irrelevant.

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by gghh »

tiffanyh wrote: post #28
jubilanti wrote: post #23

Apparently if you're a YC alum you can get to the top of the front page of HN posting an advertisement to go read someone's paywalled Wall Street Journal op ed, with a broken link when you click "read the rest".

This is spelled out on the FAQ page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Can you please spell out the spell out? You're linking 1300 words.

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by badgersnake »

zaphar wrote: post #25
kuanbutts wrote: post #2

There's got to be a variant that is a 2x2 matrix of this: Lie to others, lie to yourself (spiral together; either fantastically poor or spectacularly rich) Lie to others, tell yourself the truth (manipulation, morally broke, but materially rich) Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth (integrity, barely scrape by) Tell others the truth, lie to yourself (be used by the system, usually end up poorly)

It's not really a rule of thumb that "Tell others the truth, tell yourself the truth" means you have to barely scrape by. Plenty of people make good money that way.

It pays to be suspicious of those who tell you you can’t make an honest living.

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by andai »

claytongulick wrote: post #31
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #5

I wish I didn't have any scruples, I'd be so rich.

I was offered a project to develop a game for this sweet old lady once. She'd heard that if you made a video game and sold it, you would make a lot of money, so she'd decided to take her life savings, $200k, and hire someone to make a game. She didn't know what kind of game or anything, just "make a game". I was really worried about her and spent two hours on the phone with her trying to educate her and help her prot…

"A fool and his money are easily parted."

Re: Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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Post by Gualdrapo »

jolmg wrote: post #17
neogodless wrote: post #9

The "read the rest" button seems broken in Firefox on Windows... so that makes for a very short post.

The URL: #replace-with-the-found-url From searching the text, it seems it hasn't been published on the WSJ.

So the author lied and they are trying to get rich?
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