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The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee

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Re: The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee

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Post by ro_sharp »

weard_beard wrote: post #13
Maxatar wrote: post #9

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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…

This sounds great until a businessman arrives with a trawler, takes all of the fish, and buys all of the land in your town.

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Post by Maxatar »

simmerup wrote: post #12
charlieyu1 wrote: post #11

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This is a thing for as long as human civilisation exists.

It’s not really though. Plenty of classical civilisations saw wealth chasing and work something to be looked down on

Yes that's true, many classical civilizations saw work as a role for slaves. The ideal for classical elites wasn't to work, it was to have enough slaves that you didn't have to work yourself.

Aristotle in particular writes about this in his defense for the institution of slavery.

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Post by vanuatu »

evanjrowley wrote: post #7
vanuatu wrote: post #5

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having goals above financial well being is a luxury belief

Where did you adopt this perspective? Was it taught at your school or $religion?

I think a lot of people who grew up in developing countries or low income neighbourhoods adopt this perspective (I did both)

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Post by ozozozd »

ro_sharp wrote: post #31
weard_beard wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

This sounds great until a businessman arrives with a trawler, takes all of the fish, and buys all of the land in your town.

You wildly underestimate the self-preservation instincts of the Mexican fishermen towns.

Unless the businessman arrives with Blackwater, businessman either becomes the fisherman, or fish bait and a warning for future businessmen with similar intentions.

Re: The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee

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Post by ozozozd »

Maxatar wrote: post #15
weard_beard wrote: post #13

Earlier 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…

I furthered the incorrect ethnic origins of the fisherman, but pretty sure that fisherman is from the Mediterranean.
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