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You Can't Buy Understanding of Your Problems You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems It seems like you can hire experts to understand and consul
by csours 5y ago
You Can't Buy Understanding of Your Problems
You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems
It seems like you can hire experts to understand and consultants to care about your problems, but someone has to bring the intent and to close the loop.
- malermeister 5y agoYou can hire experts to pretend they care and do whatever's the most convenient for them and since you don't understand, you'll never know the difference.
- RealityVoid 5y agoHah, I posit that there is a _very_ low possibility of buying someone to care about your problems.
- mypalmike 5y agoThis is why visiting a doctor can be a rather frustrating experience.
- kansface 5y agoExactly right! The doctor has her own problems to care about!
- charcircuit 5y agoEveryone has a price.
- RealityVoid 5y agoI posit that paying money only buys the appearance of caring, not the actual caring. That is the reason celebrities get (got? Not up to date) doctors who prescribed addictive drugs, because they just gave the client what they wanted, not what they needed. You really want someone who speaks truth to power, not just pleasing nonsense. And the power must be able to discern the two.
- Radim 5y agoThis is true prima facie, as a snapshot of "caring". But prolonged exposition and mutual relationships (even ones kickstarted by selfish, careless objectives such as "Pay me!" or "Go to war for me!") necessarily lead to intertwining of identities. And once you consider something (or someone) a part / extension of yourself, caring follows. In other words, given enough time and substantial interaction, the lines between "you" and "me" blur. That's just a biological (physical?) observation; cf. parasites and symbionts, nation building, product marketing, leadership… Of course it's a scale, not a binary care / don't care. A doctor may care very little about a celebrity he knows he'll be interacting with for a year or two, max. But family doctors still exist, too.
- RealityVoid 5y agoVery good points, I agree with the gist of your post, I just want to say, that, still you're not really buying it, but building it, through repeated interactions.
- Radim 5y agoYes, but you can buy repeated interactions. What's the actual difference then? IMO it's down to arguing semantics about how "tight" is the causal chain between the cause and effect. Do you perceive the cause (repeat buying) and its inevitable effect (caring) as sufficiently distinct in time and space? Then I guess you didn't buy the caring, you "built it through repeated interactions". I personally see that boundary as mostly linguistic, and tend to not draw the distinction.
- q-big 5y ago> You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will. This, of course, does not imply that they will be able to solve them. > You Can't Buy Understanding of Your Problems This is less easy, but also possible: spend sufficient money so that highly intelligent people (think graduated mathematicians or theoretical physicists) will organize their life around understanding your problem. Because they are highly smart, they will very likely understand after some amount of time (hey, understanding highly complicated stuff by reading papers is what you do in graduate school). --- So the problem rather is: you are not willing to spend that much money or are far too impatient on people (i.e. you want a "fast solution" instead of someone who really deeply wants to understand everything from ground up as you do when in math research).
- zmmmmm 5y ago> This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will You can pay them enough to care as far as they get their last payment. How do you get them to care what happens after that?
- skydhash 5y agoShared ownership of the business?
- csours 5y agoYup, somehow you need to get people to own your problems for you or at least attention on your problems. You can rent it by paying people (wages). You can sell it by making it seem important to them (Tesla has no marketing department or budget for instance). Or you can share it by having partners or shareholders.