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In your area. Ask the people who provide the most basic and fundamental services around you how they get by. The cashier at the supermarket. The waiter at your restaurant. The pizza delivery guy.

I promise you, one, they are not anywhere close to making 200k. And I'm sure plenty of them have kids, family they need to provide for.

I comprehend the issue in terms of degrees of freedom. How free, how autonomous are you compared to the cashier at the supermarket? Choose your dimensions. Choice of work, choice of shelter, choice of food. Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Try your best to objectively evaluate your freedom in the dimensions that matter to you.

Then compare to your chosen reference worker/s. Cashier, delivery guy, warehouse worker, office worker, etc.

To claim that you are a wage slave is to claim that you have even less freedom than the rest of us. So analyze it carefully.

And if you do reach the conclusion that the guy working the checkouts has more freedom than you, the logical conclusion is for you to quit your 4 hours a week, 200k job and become a checkout worker, no?

Well, I'm sure you'll have no interviewing problems there.

Aren't most organizations operating in the market hierarchical, and role changes difficult? Why did you say even if the depth of hierarchy is 2? In fact, the difficulty of role change could also be a parameter in model, like how Nicky Case models stuff in some of their things, for example: https://ncase.me/polygons/

There's some game theoryish ideas such as the Peter Principle which might explain why meritocratic promotion may not work out in the long run for organizations.

See: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455, which won the parody Ig Nobel prize, but I don't really understand why, as I thought it was at least as interesting as Robert Axelrod's simulation of successful strategies in the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

I'm curious why distributed cloud storage systems such as filecoin haven't been mentioned as a possible solution. Estimates of cost of storage that I saw on "file.app" put it at something like 100x cheaper than S3.

Not worth the risk or why?

Just as a fact check, it appears that the saying that I think you are referring to is one commonly misattributed to Benjamin Franklin.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4hlaxi/did_b...

Were you thinking of another source?

There was a petition of sorts on twitter to get Hyperchange on to the conference call. I think Elon was trying to segue with a plug to these guys because they aren't the regulars.

I'm asking seriously though, what would he stand to gain from hiding info about capex? Or do you think the reaction from investors is due to his attitude or signs of stress/things going wrong internally?

> Feel free to submit a photo that confuses the biometric requirements, hope you like the automated border gates rejecting your passport

Actually, that seems like a really good idea to avoid being tracked by facial recognition systems. Remove enough detail from your photo so that you can't be identified by a neural net, but can still be identified by a human?