Screw "fun". I'd rather find a job that was satisfying. Are there any tech jobs left where one can make the world a better place to live? It seems like everything we do these days is either putting people out of work, stripping away their privacy, or making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The VC's sheep mentality and attempts to limit the capital pool may actualy be good things rather than the bad things this article casts them as.
The sheep mentality of trend following is good
in that more often than not these trends will be what people are in the market for. How many times have we seen truly groundbreaking concepts fall flat becasue they were ahead of their time?
Another point in the article was that VC's conspired to limit the amount of available capital.
The article bemoans the fact that engineers end
up taking the risks because they have
all their eggs in the one company they are working for. So it would seem, rather than a bad thing, if VC's limited the number of companies vying for the same niche, that would improve the
engineers' chances of a good payout. Let the VC's
do the first shakeout if you will. That will
make for less pain and wasted time for the engineer in the long run.
Could the US Defence Dept. be thinking these satellites may come in handy for testing out the
proposed missile shield? In a few years they may want to deorbit them into their test range.
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Screw "fun". I'd rather find a job that was satisfying. Are there any tech jobs left where one can make the world a better place to live?
It seems like everything we do these days is either putting people out of work, stripping away their privacy, or making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The sheep mentality of trend following is good
in that more often than not these trends will be what people are in the market for. How many times have we seen truly groundbreaking concepts fall flat becasue they were ahead of their time?
Another point in the article was that VC's conspired to limit the amount of available capital.
The article bemoans the fact that engineers end
up taking the risks because they have
all their eggs in the one company they are working for. So it would seem, rather than a bad thing, if VC's limited the number of companies vying for the same niche, that would improve the
engineers' chances of a good payout. Let the VC's
do the first shakeout if you will. That will
make for less pain and wasted time for the engineer in the long run.
Could the US Defence Dept. be thinking these satellites may come in handy for testing out the proposed missile shield? In a few years they may want to deorbit them into their test range.