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No they shouldn’t. There is a large supply of people capable of cleaning toilets. And a relatively smaller supply of people capable of writing software.
Under idealized conditions they would all take some training and learn to program.
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Sound like the market is working just fine then.
How do you come to that conclusion?
Clearly there are factors affecting the willingness of competitors to provide a cheaper offering, you just listed them.
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I think it goes deeper. When people become very skilled at programming they have the urge to scratch their own itch, either writing tools to solve software development problems or creating something with a technology that they want to use. They are uninterested in mundane, boring, vertical applications, but that's often where the money is. The guy in the article did some development tools but some other things too. A…
Can you give examples of boring, mundane, vertical applications?
Think accounting, insurance, banking payroll, time keeping, invoicing, stock control production control, resource management, rostering, and so on.
Its amazing that as a senior developer he was making 1700 a month USD, which is about 20k a year. Salaries for software devs outside America are so comically low. I understand why the remote work sphere is completely flooded, simply being a junior dev in America doing simple stuff right out of college and you make 6 figs. That's a platinum ticket in 99% of countries.
I mostly agree with you, but let me make it less amazing.
Outside of the US, you will likely have no student debt, low cost and high quality healthcare, lower rent, and lower cost of living. 20-year olds living in SF, NY, or Seattle, probably have student loans, rent that costs 2-3,000 per month in rent, a routine doctors bill costs $250, a lunch sandwich costs $13.
In other words, the cost of living is so high that the quality of life in a different country doing the same role will likely be higher.
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I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games. As a society we need to find a way to stop rewarding slyness and trickery (aka marketing)
>I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games. What if you replaced the word marketing with attention? Would you rather live of soup kitchens than have the attention of your ideal customers?
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It’s very hard to build a following without a system and without copying content For LinkedIn, ideally you should be posting at least 5 times a week, reposting your best performing content, re-phrasing or straight up copying viral content, and adding as many people to your contacts as possible every day (there’s a weekly limit, and there’s also a 20k total limit, so you also need to figure out what type of contacts y…
Not to be offensive, but you sound like the guy who I don’t want to be. Sitting there, figuring out the perfect number of posts to share at the perfect time. I don’t want to do that. I post a lot. On all platforms. But I don’t want to play games. Maybe I’m stupid, but I believe there is more than one way to succeed. Edit: I also feel like this entire industry is based on survivorship bias. You post into the void, tha…
You don’t have to play stupid marketing games, but you do need to have a website where you explain what your product does and you need at least a little traffic. That means you have to create some kind of marketing content that is actually valuable to people because it helps them better understand the problem your software solves.
To be clear, doing almost zero marketing is clearly suboptimal if you want to grow fast, but presumably you know this. Just don’t believe people who tell you that you have to spam and create clickbait content in order to survive.
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Your understanding of the practical and philosophical backing for capitalism is limited and reads more like an Econ 101 description of perfectly competitive markets than anything else. If you would like to learn more you could read Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy [1] or Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues [2] [1] http://libgen.is/book/index.phpmd5=21EE8F203D5C3F9530D55985B... [2] https://pre…
Read a book is not a very helpful response in a discussion. Why do you not just state your position or point out a concrete flaw in mine or a disagreement with it? Until now you have not actually said anything substantial. Do you think the system is working well if 90 percent of your revenue is profit? Do you think competitive markets are not an important part of a capitalistic system? Do you want to say that zero pr…
Zero economic profit holds only in equilibrium and there are no markets where equilibrium ever holds for long because the global and local economy is constantly in flux and entrepreneurs are constantly trying to find new ways to solve old problems cheaper or new markets or ways to solve a problem when one of the inputs suddenly dectupled in price.
The system is working well if 90% of revenue is profit at pip squeak levels, yes. If Microsoft could manage 90% profit margins on billions of dollars of working capital that would be concerning. Individuals or small companies finding tiny market imperfections and becoming wildly rich exploiting them is the system working, incentivising people to produce value.
Schumpeter: Entrepreneurs make new things and that’s great. Outside capitalism those people turn that energy into taking more of the pie, as warlords or tax farmers. Capitalism is better.
McCloskey: Capitalism is good because it inculcates patience, diligence and tolerance in people.
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It’s very hard to build a following without a system and without copying content For LinkedIn, ideally you should be posting at least 5 times a week, reposting your best performing content, re-phrasing or straight up copying viral content, and adding as many people to your contacts as possible every day (there’s a weekly limit, and there’s also a 20k total limit, so you also need to figure out what type of contacts y…
I'd rather be unemployed and live off charity kitchen soups than engage in these juvenile games. As a society we need to find a way to stop rewarding slyness and trickery (aka marketing)
It’s funny, but when you post an obvious click bait to Reddit/hn everybody is like “this is clickbait, the author is trying to sell you his coaching”, etc.
But then, when you say you don’t want to participate in algorithm hunger games, everyone is like “no, you won’t succeed. You need to shove your products down the throat if your readers”. :puke:
Business advice is often just someone handing you their winning lottery ticket. It worked perfectly for them but will probably be totally useless and not repeatable for you.