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awkward nature of business people to think and/or want everything to be buyable and sellable with no regard of understanding of intangibles

like cultural standards or exhaustion

@icedquinn there's no money in intangibles how do you leverage an asset you only theoretically have lemme tell ya you don't

@bajax the intangible still very much affect you even if you leave them off the spreadsheet and ignore them

@bajax @icedquinn there's a lot of money in intangibles. exploitation of intangibles is exactly why most companies suck.

@f0x @icedquinn yeah I even learned in an accounting class I took that they DO have formulae for accounting for intangibles, even by that name lol i just forgot

by intangibles in this case I guess I mean things like, not living in a hellscape that's hostile to human life even though I'm giving up like a 2% yearly rent for the privilege... things that don't appeal to that literally money-grubbing personality that can't abide any human endeavor that doesn't make their big number get bigger.

also I'm not too with it right now I'm on all kinds of pain meds (and edibles) so sorry if this is kinda incoherent

@bajax @icedquinn no worries dude lol, hope your tooth gets fixed soon.
What I mean is exactly what you said, plus PR, corporate family guilt, and patents are directly used as weaponry against workers and consumers.

>by intangibles in this case I guess I mean things like, not living in a hellscape that's hostile to human life

property outside of the city??

@f0x @icedquinn lol no, my property is inside the city limits unfortunately. fortunately it's not a bad city

@f0x @icedquinn our entire society's value structure is completely out of whack. the market is good for managing a lot of things, but society (i.e. people) should control the free market, not the other way around. not this faceless evil thing that optimizes all of its behavior to maximize a single factor (usually something like GDP)

not to mention how this state of affairs encourages organized crime

(tldr; iow I agree I think)

@bajax @f0x you can bodge some of it by just adding more margins of error to calculations.

i still see folk here and there talk about it though. systems analysts especially mock the harvard school.

ironically a trump book (one he didn't write, just slapped his name on) included a bit about it once. how the outsourcing cost for cleaning a house might look like 40$, but if you hate cleaning and you could have done 80$ worth of work in what you lost due to cleaning and being angry/exhausted, you lost money by trying to save money

deming has more/better examples of just buying the expensive good tool looked terrible on paper but the feedback effects made everything worth it