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>There are three areas I am aware of where labor can absolutely compound (in terms of output): business, software, and learning. Well this would mean that ever
by whybroke 12y ago
>There are three areas I am aware of where labor can absolutely compound (in terms of output): business, software, and learning.
Well this would mean that every 10 times engineer ends up 10^20 richer than average at the end of his career. Since that far exceeds the planet's wealth, I am somewhat skeptical.
And if there are no 10 times engineer, even a five times engineer would end up roughly a hundred trillion times wealthier than average. So I humbly submit there's a flaw in the idea of literal compound labor value.
- mej10 12y agoIf you want to be (unnecessarily) pedantic, I never said what the frequency of the compounding was. I didn't realize we were trying to come up with a realistic model of expected utility in these three fields. If you don't want to believe that work put into these can compound over a person's life, thats fine. You're wrong, but that's ok. -- just don't pretend to pick it apart by applying math to an informal discussion.