The Bubble Is Labor
danielmiessler.comThat’s looking only at the supply side and ignoring the demand side. Sure, founders might not need laborers - but they still need buyers. If nobody has a job, where does the money come from to buy products and services? Nowhere. The whole system collapses for everyone. Economic collapse leads to monetary collapse, and even your millions won’t save you. You may "own" things, but only as long as you can defend them. See where this goes?
companies routinely demand and supply things of and to each other.
i don't see why the economy necessarily has to "touch a floor" of human desire.
a company could be founded with the goal of, for example, colonizing mars. fulfilling this mandate (this prompt...) would then drive economic impulses such as acquiring materials for constructing rockets.
in parallel that company might satisfy the demands of other companies which need, for example, orbital insertions to fulfill their mandate.
perhaps without a floor of demand driven by darwinian organisms the whole thing fizzles out eventually.
but i also don't see why a darwinian agent can't emerge from the corporate process...
perhaps that comes about very quickly once humans can no longer acquire and exercise purchasing power - a company simply spins up some emulations of humans to create demand in the economy.
yes, this all sounds very "empty" to me, but frankly that's also how i feel about the world as it is.
given how much suffering arises by way of the human driven economy being kept in motion, i think there's even a moral case for allowing the whole thing to fade into an empty mechanical pantomime.
i just sincerely hope the artificial processes that replace us aren't also somehow instantiating suffering...
It's all fun and games until somebody needs to eat
Then how come most folks reaching out to me will ONLY hire W-2 roles and not 1099/C2C roles?
What's wrong with this author?
Also missing is the fact that sweetheart deals are made between govt and large employers to place employees in their location. Likewise with tariffs (if you love them or hate them, it doesn't matter) - some new labor demand is inevitable, even if it's mostly robotics folks. Nothing wrong with the author, just missing some nuances.
I think I both high-level understand general sort of market economics and hate it in a lot of ways. And I don't know if this is obvious to everyone or people figure it out at different rates, but the rise of DEI like perfectly mapped the constraints in the labor market.
Basically if companies need labor, human rights, salaries, work culture all improve, if they don't. Well.
I'm not like fundamentally a socialist, and again, sort of the growth in the economy certainly led this, but it really felt like the post-war culture was very focused on what we could build together.