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It's important for scientists, engineers and inventors to also understand how business works to not get short-changed and how to negotiate an equal equity stake
by burntrelish1273 9y ago
It's important for scientists, engineers and inventors to also understand how business works to not get short-changed and how to negotiate an equal equity stake. Ignorance is no excuse.
Anyone whom offers to go into business with someone (at a less than equal footing) or tries to make them their employee when they're the primary technologist is likely cheating them a-priori.
- IslaDeEncanta 9y agoIgnorance is no excuse for the natural consequence of capitalism? Capitalism is founded on exploitation, don't blame it on the engineers.
- jpttsn 9y agoExactly! You can't just go around treating engineers like adults.
- jo78 9y agoOh boy...so what do you tell your kids an adult is? Someone who does whatever it takes, no matter if they need to, no matter who it hurts right? It's a highly misguided view that breaks down as soon as you hit life's roadblocks and require someone else to help you out.
- jpttsn 9y agoDon't worry, I don't tell my kids that. You made it up.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- aleksei 9y agoSo if someone gets shafted it's their own fault?
- jrs235 9y agoCaveat Emptor! (They don't teach it in schools anymore...)
- robotresearcher 9y agoSomebody decided not to fund schools properly.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- Sunset 9y ago> Capitalism is founded on exploitation As opposed to being founded on stealing other people's stuff.
- vinceguidry 9y agoThat was what civilization was founded on. Capitalism came many iterative ticks later. It's actually way less exploitative than the regime it replaced, feudalism.
- njarboe 9y agoAnd before that, at the very start of civilization, there was the more exploitive warlordism.
- vinceguidry 9y ago"Farm this land, and make as much as you can, and give us the surplus, or we'll kill you and find someone who will." "You mean I don't have to wander around the land responding to threats, you'll do that for me? If someone else comes around and threatens me, I can just point them to you? I can sit here and just figure out how to increase my YoY crop? Buddy, you don't have to coerce me, just swing by every month and we'll wine and dine the fuck out of you! I sure hope you brought all your horses because you're gonna need em!" Warlords were like helicopter bosses. Annoying, but they don't stick around long enough to really mess with anything. It's those with misplaced senses of justice that really got a bee under their bonnet over it. Same as today.
- mkempe 9y agoActually, laissez-faire capitalism is the system of freedom -- inalienable individual rights, free minds, free trade, and free markets.
- appleflaxen 9y agoyes... voluntary exploitation. the whole point of capitalism is that any transaction requires both parties to enter voluntarily. it's not always pretty (and needs regulation to prevent monopoly formation, which the US currently lacks) but the alternative systems with involuntary transactions are demonstrably worse.
- robotresearcher 9y ago> the whole point of capitalism is that any transaction requires both parties to enter voluntarily. When one party is hungry, and the other is not, voluntary participation does not imply freedom of choice.
- icelancer 9y agoIf there are only two parties in the market, sure. That is rarely the case in any economic system, and can be argued that it is the least likely to occur in a capitalist-style system.