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"farmers feeding the world are struggling to make a living" "random dude can retire in peace by uploading a white noise on spotify"

irthomasthomas 4y ago
Who are these poor farmers? All the farmers around me are millionaires.
- honkler 4y ago
  i heard bill gates is a farmer too these days
arvinsim 4y ago
When trying to find out what society really values, don't listen to what society says. Rather look at who they actually pay more.
- tgv 4y ago
  You seem to be under the impression that society values the likes of Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes.
  - kweinber 4y ago
    Society values investment strategies and medical innovations. If society finds out it has been defrauded, then society tries to reclaim its investments and punish the fraudsters.
    - williamtrask 4y ago
      Society sounds very cranky
    - derbOac 4y ago
      Not disagreeing with what you wrote, but the word "fraud" itself implies a distinction between perceived and actual value.
  - wongarsu 4y ago
    To be fair, if societal values are determined by capital allocation then the values are almost entirely determined by the top 10%.
  - 8note 4y ago
    Society did at some point, but I think society would pay more for a loaf of bread than a Madoff share today
- slibhb 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism
codethief 4y ago
To be fair, there are millions of farmers around the world and only a handful of white noise producers. Moreover, each white noise producer seems to be serving hundreds of thousands of people. Economy of scale is a thing.
- booleandilemma 4y ago
  That’s enough HN for me today.
  - UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
    Expect being flagged in 3 ... 2... Conform, consume, follow or ...simply die. That's our era's motto.
- qolop 4y ago
  >>> "To be fair" You're joking right? It's not fair. It's capitalism.
dwighttk 4y ago
Get back to me when this continues into the guy’s retirement.
hp48fan 4y ago
Ya, but I wouldn't be surprised if half the white noise guys are watching farming videos or woodworking videos to calm their anxiety at night. Clearly, Im projecting.
karaterobot 4y ago
The farmers didn't earn the $18k, and splitting it between them all wouldn't change anything for them. As ridiculous as it is to sell white noise for a living, it's a logical consequence of the kind of world that allows so many of us here on HN to make a living selling little bits of symbolic logic arranged in patterns.
relativ575 4y ago
This is Exhibit A of how awful social media can be: low effort, wrong, lack of nuance comment that invokes fake outrage and aims at stirring emotion from an wound up audience
8note 4y ago
You're comparing the p99 to the p25. Farming has its wealthy members too
tenebrisalietum 4y ago
at least they aren't starving though? also farming machines make some pretty nice noise so maybe they should get it on it.

irthomasthomas 4y ago

Who are these poor farmers? All the farmers around me are millionaires.

honkler 4y ago
i heard bill gates is a farmer too these days

arvinsim 4y ago

When trying to find out what society really values, don't listen to what society says. Rather look at who they actually pay more.

tgv 4y ago
You seem to be under the impression that society values the likes of Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes.
- kweinber 4y ago
  Society values investment strategies and medical innovations. If society finds out it has been defrauded, then society tries to reclaim its investments and punish the fraudsters.
  - williamtrask 4y ago
    Society sounds very cranky
  - derbOac 4y ago
    Not disagreeing with what you wrote, but the word "fraud" itself implies a distinction between perceived and actual value.
- wongarsu 4y ago
  To be fair, if societal values are determined by capital allocation then the values are almost entirely determined by the top 10%.
- 8note 4y ago
  Society did at some point, but I think society would pay more for a loaf of bread than a Madoff share today
slibhb 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalism

codethief 4y ago

To be fair, there are millions of farmers around the world and only a handful of white noise producers. Moreover, each white noise producer seems to be serving hundreds of thousands of people. Economy of scale is a thing.

booleandilemma 4y ago
That’s enough HN for me today.
- UmbertoNoEco 4y ago
  Expect being flagged in 3 ... 2... Conform, consume, follow or ...simply die. That's our era's motto.
qolop 4y ago
>>> "To be fair" You're joking right? It's not fair. It's capitalism.

dwighttk 4y ago

Get back to me when this continues into the guy’s retirement.

hp48fan 4y ago

Ya, but I wouldn't be surprised if half the white noise guys are watching farming videos or woodworking videos to calm their anxiety at night. Clearly, Im projecting.

karaterobot 4y ago

The farmers didn't earn the $18k, and splitting it between them all wouldn't change anything for them. As ridiculous as it is to sell white noise for a living, it's a logical consequence of the kind of world that allows so many of us here on HN to make a living selling little bits of symbolic logic arranged in patterns.

relativ575 4y ago

This is Exhibit A of how awful social media can be: low effort, wrong, lack of nuance comment that invokes fake outrage and aims at stirring emotion from an wound up audience

8note 4y ago

You're comparing the p99 to the p25. Farming has its wealthy members too

tenebrisalietum 4y ago

at least they aren't starving though? also farming machines make some pretty nice noise so maybe they should get it on it.