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Is this a cryptic crossword clue for "slaves"? I know the parent comment spells slaves.
by rakejake 4y ago
Is this a cryptic crossword clue for "slaves"? I know the parent comment spells slaves.
- rakejake 4y agoSorry, meant to say Slaver.
- catchnear4321 4y agoObviously beer exists, yes?
- Thorrez 4y agoftio's comment spells out "slavery". catchnear4321's comment spells out "consume". I'm not sure why your shareholders would want you to consume. The more time you spend consuming the less time you spend producing value for your shareholders.
- catchnear4321 4y agoSomeone needs to buy a second monitor.
- Thorrez 4y agoIf you're going to use the monitor for producing, I would call that investing, not consuming.
- catchnear4321 4y agoMake it a third. Keep buying monitors until productivity peaks. Then add one more. For YouTube.
- Thorrez 4y agoYour shareholders aren't going to be happy about that last one.
- catchnear4321 4y agoYou think my shareholders aren’t market makers that also hold shares of Alphabet, whatever it may be called at that point? That’s the bright future I was envisioning. If I’m watching YouTube while producing, my shareholders get paid twice. I may even get a “most valuable me” award from them. Nobody else comes close to me at being me. Shoot, if I worked for YouTube and was watching YouTube, that’s three times. By the way, America needs to understand that there is a huge risk of my me being superseded by some foreign me, which is bad for America. So if Congress could find it in their hearts to think of the country and throw a little IRS scratch my way… I’ll double down on me, maybe even clone another me in America rather than overseas. Definitely not for dividends. I promise. Pinky swear. (Nancy pick up the phone.)
- Thorrez 4y agoHow much profit does Alphabet gain from you watching YouTube more on your additional monitor? How much productivity is lost due to you watching YouTube more on your additional monitor? I would assume the productivity hit would outweigh whatever gain Alphabet gets. And this is assuming the ownership percentages are the same. If the shareholders hold 50% of you but only 1% of Alphabet, then their preference for your productivity would be 50x greater.
- catchnear4321 4y agoYou’re thinking small time. What if people combined their efforts, and sold shares of that? There could be a whole commune or collective of people who blend their shares into a composite, and guarantee they are watching YouTube. Sure, the amount generated by an individual would be small. But think about at scale. Whole cities full of people watching YouTube.