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As somebody who isn’t a software dev, I’d say that it’s Silicon Valley software engineers.
by imwillofficial 6y ago
As somebody who isn’t a software dev, I’d say that it’s Silicon Valley software engineers.
- SllX 6y agoAccountants are hired to make the tax man go away using whatever voodoo necessary with as little time and monetary investment possible.
- imwillofficial 6y agoSounds like we have more than one religion in our modern society with their distinct rituals and incantations. “Have you ever SEEN google?” “How do you know He is real?” The modern atheist. (A joke)
- SllX 6y agoPerhaps it would be fairer to say we have a pantheon and each of our Gods a different priesthood studying different scriptures, or different focuses of the same scriptures. The Medicine Men, the Beancounters, the IT Department, the Lawmen, the Brokers and all the other professions which act as a transactional cost for doing business, who communicate primarily via standardized forms, and who try to keep evil specters from haunting you.
- airstrike 6y agoThat's one woeful oversimplification.
- rorykoehler 6y agoPretty true for me. The risk of not having an accountant handle tax affairs is too great compared to the reward of saving a bit of money every year.
- SllX 6y agoTrue: there is also the Insurance Man to keep happy, and the bankers that are looking to lend you money want statements that say lending money to you isn’t a financially ruinous proposition. But really, mostly to make the Taxman go away. If Uncle Sam finishes his colonoscopy so thorough that you’re still getting the taste of rubber off the back of your tongue a few weeks later and only charges you a couple hundred dollars for his time, that’s about the most you can really hope for.
- swiley 6y agoPeople pray to software now. They pray that their message will be heard on the platform they use. They pray that the gods won't smite their business from its platform. They pray the algorithms will choose a match that will love them and see them for who they really are. They pray that their resume is kept by the filters and shown to a human who might understand it. God is dead and the platforms have killed him.
- burnished 6y agoGod is closer to being real now more than any other time. Certain forms of prayer work now! Pleas sent on social networks occasionally (and capriciously) effect dramatic changes in peoples lives. Do you know why you can't beseech the oracle, "O wise Oracle, <insert query here>?"? Because it only responds to "Hey google..".
- UncleOxidant 6y agoAccountants & Finance folk control the purse strings and thus what gets developed by those Silicon Valley (and other) software engineers.
- imwillofficial 6y agoWell somebody has to pay the priests right?