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How almost no one understands that simply trading your time as units for money is ridiculous.

• polyterative 7y ago
  Can you elaborate please?
  • jonwinstanley 7y ago
    On your own, you only have 1 person's time to trade for money, but once you employ others you have a multiplier.
    • homonculus1 7y ago
      In other words, you're the sucker if you're not exploiting others.
• ipnon 7y ago
  An equally terse generalization: You're trading your labor for money. Your time is marginally valuable.
  • Infinitesimus 7y ago
    It's often about time instead labor for those not self-employed though. Time has a universal ceiling for us humans and is the ultimate boundary
• webew 7y ago
  In nature, everything is free. If you're an engineer here, you'll find something there, too.
• sumedh 7y ago
  What is your solution go back to a barter system?
  • ggambetta 7y ago
    No, he's saying "run a company", essentially.
• anotheryou 7y ago
  but running things yourself means networking and financial risk. not everyone is good at that or can afford it