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ffs. Humans have lived on the planet for 200000 years. This way of organizing people as a company interacting with the labor market with assets & investments &
by dxbydt 5y ago
ffs.
Humans have lived on the planet for 200000 years. This way of organizing people as a company interacting with the labor market with assets & investments & risk management...is at best a 100 years old. Its like a drop in the ocean of time.
That said, when I was taking courses in Finance as a young 20 something, I came up with this same exact analogy & took it to its logical end - I conceived a stock exchange called the Human Stock Exchange, where every human being was a human stock ticker, and if you liked the performance of your colleagues you would buy their human stock so their human stock price would go up. You could sell short the poorly performing colleagues on your team...its a pretty toxic concept, if you think through it.
Ofcourse, since its such a toxic idea, given the extremely virtuous nature of our benign species, this toxic idea must already exist & thrive. See for instance Will Smith's stock taking a beating after what happened yesterday - https://www.hsx.com/security/view/WSMIT https://www.hsx.com/security/view/WSMIT
- bsedlm 5y ago> I conceived a stock exchange called the Human Stock Exchange, where every human being was a human stock ticker, I've had a very vague (somewhat similar) idea that I'm stil trying to articulate well. something like what you said but the stock is run on a blockchain then every person can emit their own stock which can get traded around. at some point, the emitter person must (somehow) be made to respond for what they emitted. naturally, some people will be reliable (and their emited credits will have high value) and others will constantly flop and default so nobody will be interested in having lots of their credit. so far, this "idea" (which is just barely a sketch) poses more problems than solutions (maybe it's a bit of a barely-baked idea looking for a problem?) but it's fun to think about what else we could possibly do that nobody's thoght to do yet.
- caffeine 5y agoHa it’s actually sort of already happening with NFTs. If your celebrity status goes up your NFT value does too.
- ozim 5y agoWhat is your idea of how people were living for most of that history? You think being human stock ticker is worse than: living on average 25 years, starving most of your life, having high chance of being literal slave not figurative, being ostracized and killed for any silly reason by local community, being dumped into trash or simply killed if local community found you were not useful or weak So if you take it into perspective of 200000 years - being human ticker is actually really nice and comfortable.
- svnt 5y ago> living on average 25 years, starving most of your life, having high chance of being literal slave not figurative, being ostracized and killed for any silly reason by local community, being dumped into trash or simply killed if local community found you were not useful or weak This is all outdated colonial myth. You should turn on your educational updates.
- ozim 5y agoI agree average lifespan of 25 is a bit unfair as that was mostly because of infant death rates. But I still think hunter-gatherer that broke his leg had maybe couple of months to live. Peasants in middle ages in Europe that were not able to "simply" change jobs or move out to live wherever they want. That would have to put up with abuse from land owners and other "nobles". The same hell if one would be a woman in past times - not just no ability to vote - just daily abuse as in rape and violence. I would like to see some real arguments for "life was better back then, now we are mindless drones".