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What's the goal here? The American dream? Well, you need to be able to afford a home and children. People can't. Why not? Because they aren't paid enough for t

What's the goal here? The American dream? Well, you need to be able to afford a home and children. People can't. Why not? Because they aren't paid enough for the work they do. The money is being made, but it ends up at the top, and not even corporate tax is being paid with all the tax optimization routes. So what do people do? They begin startups. Most of the time they're done by people who should even waste their time on it, because they haven't been trained to build and run a company. But guess what? It's the only way to "make it" and the "American dream". Want to be taken care of properly? Pay RN more. Want better education for people who can't afford? Pay teachers in community colleges more. Want more R&D? Pay "smart" people more, instead of forcing them to try and do the startup. Want affordable housing? Force big companies to have offices outside the big cities. Also, value housepricing at 20% of what they're worth not to destroy mortgages. Tax forgein owned housing. Tax owning houses beyond the first one. Building is not the problem. Building is easy. You talk about robots... how is that gonna help "the american dream"? It's not. The problem is financial and ownership disitrbution. Normal people stand no chance against tax routes, against their employers, against the government. They are slaves to all of that.

bob33212 7y ago
Marc isn't interested in a solution that makes him have to live like a person who makes 400k a year. He needs a solution where he can still live on millions a year.
- dang 7y ago
  Please don't post petty personal swipes. The site guidelines ask you to assume good faith. Maybe you don't owe "Marc" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
eli_gottlieb 7y ago
>Want more R&D? Pay "smart" people more, instead of forcing them to try and do the startup. ... having found that I can attack problems which are 10x harder in academia, as a lowly PhD student, than I was ever allowed to come close to touching in industry, because I didn't have both a PhD and my own company... Yeah. I would never claim I've done particularly great or world-changing research so far (all my conference papers get rejected, after all), but nonetheless, I definitely think I make more contribution to society overall working on, say, applying Bayesian deep learning to study individual differences in neuroimaging than, say, doing web apps for sports teams or embedded firmware for a product that gets canceled (my previous two jobs). And I definitely contribute more to society working on the derp larnin' for neuro-imaging than I did when I was unemployed and getting turned down for ML engineer jobs because I hadn't done enough ML before and the stars didn't align my way. Arrange the money so that it pays to throw smart people at hard, useful problems.
tomp 7y ago
> Force big companies to have offices outside the big cities Do we really want this? Personally, I love it that last time I changed jobs, I didn't need to move (the new office was literally 3 blocks away from the old one), and that I'm free to change jobs again without having to plan relocation.

bob33212 7y ago

Marc isn't interested in a solution that makes him have to live like a person who makes 400k a year. He needs a solution where he can still live on millions a year.

dang 7y ago
Please don't post petty personal swipes. The site guidelines ask you to assume good faith. Maybe you don't owe "Marc" better, but you owe this community better if you're posting here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

eli_gottlieb 7y ago

>Want more R&D? Pay "smart" people more, instead of forcing them to try and do the startup. ... having found that I can attack problems which are 10x harder in academia, as a lowly PhD student, than I was ever allowed to come close to touching in industry, because I didn't have both a PhD and my own company... Yeah. I would never claim I've done particularly great or world-changing research so far (all my conference papers get rejected, after all), but nonetheless, I definitely think I make more contribution to society overall working on, say, applying Bayesian deep learning to study individual differences in neuroimaging than, say, doing web apps for sports teams or embedded firmware for a product that gets canceled (my previous two jobs). And I definitely contribute more to society working on the derp larnin' for neuro-imaging than I did when I was unemployed and getting turned down for ML engineer jobs because I hadn't done enough ML before and the stars didn't align my way. Arrange the money so that it pays to throw smart people at hard, useful problems.

tomp 7y ago

> Force big companies to have offices outside the big cities Do we really want this? Personally, I love it that last time I changed jobs, I didn't need to move (the new office was literally 3 blocks away from the old one), and that I'm free to change jobs again without having to plan relocation.