Re: Electronics - how to ruin a good hobby. A story with no morals...

Roger Lascelles wrote:

I wish there was a book called "Understanding People for Geeks".

I've been contemplating writing a book called "How to Stop Being a Geek, Hate People and Mobs, then Break Them".

There are 
so many tech people who don't understand the human animal.  The human is a
dangerous, crafty, loveable beast, with complex motivations.

Just as head and heart interact in the individual, cultural beliefs and motives interact with individual beliefs and motives to create higher order complex dynamics. It is just such cultural dynamics that really tear up individuals - altruism; the cultural expectation that individuals ought to sacrifice or act on behalf of the group at their own expense. It is the belief in altruism that turns individuals into their own victimizers, and turns leaders into looters and cannibals.

Honesty and 
knowledge-seeking are not the predominant drives of a human who is
successful at making money - or most humans for that matter.

I don't believe that.Bill Gates, for instance, may have gone over to the dark side, but that isn't how he started. Or Wasniak at Apple, et. Too much of a good thing is harmful.

No, its a predatory culture that punishes altruists by sucking all their blood until they become bitter, and bitter coworkers that hate anyone who is not as miserable as they.

It can take 
20, 40 years, for a geek to come to terms with humans - or like my own
father, never in a lifetime.

Some altruists are never brave enough to hate predators and the mob, that they can love themselves. Its the belief that altruism is good, and egoism is bad. Such people are condemned to bleed themselves to death to feed the predatory parasites.

Business types see tech people as tools to be used.  You see electronics
people who are sucked dry after years of battling and a few rip-offs.

Honesty and business are not mutually exclusive. It takes higher-order dynamics, like the government enabling slave-labor and imports from slave-labor cultures, to force business into ruthless cut-throat behavior. It's bad policy to screw smart people.

The best are either smart enough to see through the abuse and go to where they are honored and rewarded, or smart enough to rip-off and start their own predatory scam, like Dave.

I must say I prefer a pay packet to running a business.  The pay packet
tells me my employer is serious about the business - not like those chancers
who wasted my time on quotations and discussions that never produced a
return.  And I don't have the worry of tax payments and book keeping.

How can you proudly take a pay-packet from those that are using you like a cheap tool, if you're not screwing them back?

Scott

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