\u201cthis is fine just fuck me up\u201d<\/em>. 1% owning 99%, don\u2019t forget. Never forget, that\u2019s key in changing how society functions.<\/p>\nLike I tweeted Quality of Life shouldn\u2019t be indexed to work. The good news is we can afford it, the bad news is most people can\u2019t grasp that it\u2019s possible. Jeff Bezos \u201cmade\u201d $7B in 45 minutes when Amazon stocks jumped a hundred bucks a few days ago. Do you know how many things you can solve with seven billion dollars? Let me help you: a fucking shit ton.<\/p>\n
If those Amazon people didn\u2019t have to think about paying rent \u2013being on average half of what we make right?-, they still would work as hard \u2013I think even harder- but they would be freed from pressure<\/strong> if something happens in their lives it wouldn\u2019t be a big deal, just a change of pace. And maybe they would come back to the hard tech world once they feel like they can again.<\/p>\nFailure costs would be at a minimum instead of a maximum: bankruptcy, guilt, feelings of being worthless etc. All that, gone. Maybe that job wasn\u2019t for you. Maybe you just needed a break!<\/p>\n
We need to stop putting all the pressure on people, that\u2019s why people break not because they work hard<\/strong>. We have wealth and we need to redistribute far more efficiently than the way we\u2019re doing it today which is to sprinkle some money on the poor, allow stupid amounts of taxes to not be collected from a stupidly wealthy crowd and ask the middle to do everything more and harder. That\u2019s imploding right now in our faces.<\/p>\nOne more thing: Amazon is huge but Amazon is not profitable. You can\u2019t say that you\u2019re that successful if you\u2019re continuously in the red for 15 years. So maybe if pressure comes off people shoulders they will start working on things that are actually making a nice profit for the retail giant and make customers happier. Just sayin\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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