[FRIAM] !RE: A million tech jobs unfilled

[George Duncan]

Tolstoy, in War and Peace, would heartily agree.

George Duncan
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:08 AM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I agree wholeheartedly that the difference between a wannabe serial
> entrpreneur and an extant one may well be dumb luck.  But I don't agree
> w.r.t. the difference between the nomadic hippie and the serial entrpreneur
> (wannabe or not).  That difference lies in what their nose tells them and
> which scent they wind up following.  It's interesting to me that you tacked
> on the "impoverished" qualifier ... as if nobody would ever live like a
> nomadic hippie unless they were forced to by circumstances like lack of
> money.
>
> One of the key points about our homeless problem here in Portland is that
> a sizable fraction of the homeless _want_ to live outdoors, in the
> (camping) communities of people they live in.  With only self-reporting to
> go by, we have no real idea whether they really want what they say they
> want, of course.  Would their behavior (statements of want) change if we
> handed them a basic income?  I have no idea.  But I think it's worth a few
> hundred experiments at least.
>
> On 03/16/2017 09:51 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> > The difference between the wealthy serial entrepreneur and the
> impoverished nomadic hippy may just be dumb luck.  Ed Angel loaned me THE
> DRUNKARD'S WALK, which reminded me once again of our romantic tendency to
> infer talent from success.  This is one of the points on which Peirce was
> very strong. Most effects are random, and the few that are not are very
> hard to ferret out.
>
> --
> ☣ glen
>
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