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I've gone through that line of thought more than once and I've come to the conclusion that what we do or attempt to do is far more beneficial to human advanceme
by aswanson 17y ago
I've gone through that line of thought more than once and I've come to the conclusion that what we do or attempt to do is far more beneficial to human advancement than these bullshit 3 card monty games. That has to count for something, at least in terms of self-respect.
- pyre 17y agoIt's sort of sad that the original intent of all of this stuff was to help make it easier to finance businesses. But people just found ways to make the buying and selling of these (shares,bonds,etc) as a product unto itself. The people that sit atop Wall Street are several layers abstracted from the actual generation of usefulness.
- drunkpotato 17y agoThis is very true on the technical end of things. Where we (and by we, I mean the human race) are lacking is on the political end. I have come to the sad conclusion that there are not enough hackers in the political system. By a political hacker I mean people who are willing to experiment, to tinker, to say "I don't know if this will work, but let's try to find out", people who are empirically-minded and data- rather than poll-driven. I don't know how to solve this problem, either, as those of us of this mind-set tend to be more technically oriented than politically oriented.