Nobody tell him what happens to the electricity and Internet during the "we'd go hungry for a little bit" part.
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farmers have a good work ethic also , along with responsibility
"it's easy not a special skill"
Cool, so that redditor is already doing it, right?
You know, I've been trying to grow food now for several years in a row, and it actually turns out that it's really fuckin hard. Like, you might be able to get something to grow, but the idea of growing enough that you don't die of starvation, especially when you basically have one shot at it, I'm really thankful that I can just go to the store and buy you a 3-month supply of rice for a couple hours of work.
Ironically though, we see the same thing with computers. People keep on claiming that it's just a skill set and that anyone can learn it, but that's not really true. We see lots of people who can't really learn computers. Hell, most of silicon valley at this point is facing giant layoffs because these tech companies picked up all these employees who can't actually do any productive work.
Yeah, it's great you can do a tick tock video about drinking your soy latte, but over the last couple years Facebook has gone down a few times and I guarantee you that it isn't the soy latte swilling tiktokers who got it back up and running.
I have a specific skill at work, and it's one of those skills that a lot of people think is easy because you don't have to lift up a giant physical thing to do it. One guy accused me of trying to hide all the information so that he couldn't learn how to do that thing, so I ended up spending the time and I put together a 100 page manual describing an excruciating detail exactly how to do my job, a several hour training course, and all the hardware required to do it, and guess what? I never heard from that guy again. Because it turns out that doing hard things is hard.
Cool, so that redditor is already doing it, right?
You know, I've been trying to grow food now for several years in a row, and it actually turns out that it's really fuckin hard. Like, you might be able to get something to grow, but the idea of growing enough that you don't die of starvation, especially when you basically have one shot at it, I'm really thankful that I can just go to the store and buy you a 3-month supply of rice for a couple hours of work.
Ironically though, we see the same thing with computers. People keep on claiming that it's just a skill set and that anyone can learn it, but that's not really true. We see lots of people who can't really learn computers. Hell, most of silicon valley at this point is facing giant layoffs because these tech companies picked up all these employees who can't actually do any productive work.
Yeah, it's great you can do a tick tock video about drinking your soy latte, but over the last couple years Facebook has gone down a few times and I guarantee you that it isn't the soy latte swilling tiktokers who got it back up and running.
I have a specific skill at work, and it's one of those skills that a lot of people think is easy because you don't have to lift up a giant physical thing to do it. One guy accused me of trying to hide all the information so that he couldn't learn how to do that thing, so I ended up spending the time and I put together a 100 page manual describing an excruciating detail exactly how to do my job, a several hour training course, and all the hardware required to do it, and guess what? I never heard from that guy again. Because it turns out that doing hard things is hard.
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Yeah, a skill that "anyone can learn" is totally not the same as a skill that everybody has learned.
I am absolutely not a genius by any stretch. But I have a job that pretty much any midtier midwit could learn, but not everybody learns it.
Some people are too smart and have higher goals in life
And, of course, some people are too dumb
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Not every hire gets trained-up on a reasonable timeframe. We've seen a lot of people come and go.
@sj_zero @Hoss @Rasterman Everything looks easy until you actually have to do it.
I think it's going to be really interesting because the millennials are really the last generation to really have a lot of people who understand technology because back then you had to learn technology to be able to use technology, but right now the technology is easy enough that you can use it without really knowing anything about it.
Most of the time it has nothing to do with smart or dumb, it's just which skills of people earned and people which skills haven't people learned, but some skills are tedious to learn if there isn't some reward for it, if you weren't going to be able to play the latest video game at the end of it, a lot of millennial boys wouldn't have learned Tech. It's a tedious skill to learn.
On the other hand though, skills are skills and they're often quite useful, and so people who disregard the effort and aptitude that goes into learning a skill do so at their own peril...
Most of the time it has nothing to do with smart or dumb, it's just which skills of people earned and people which skills haven't people learned, but some skills are tedious to learn if there isn't some reward for it, if you weren't going to be able to play the latest video game at the end of it, a lot of millennial boys wouldn't have learned Tech. It's a tedious skill to learn.
On the other hand though, skills are skills and they're often quite useful, and so people who disregard the effort and aptitude that goes into learning a skill do so at their own peril...