Ding ding ding.
How does one attain knowledge?
Interpreting valuable experience? Mentorship? Book learnin’?
Trading it for work?
Value is much more complicated than those goofy equations.
When you are selecting an employee based on value, first you gotta look at the problem in question, your companies philosophy, and the resources available to solve that job. Then you go look for an employee that is compatible with all those criteria.
I’d give you an example. You’d easily be worth thousands of dollars a week to me farming leftists on facebook, but nearly nothing to me in cart farm (not an insult, we are incompatible in this instance). My solution isn’t to hire you at minimum wage for cart farm, its to pass you socialists to cultivate.
I’m transitioning my companies to artificial intelligence to stop that shit.
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I agree. I think the difference is that I find it important to help cultivate value in my community by teaching people valuable skills, instead of outcycling them to being government cash holes.
There’s a whole lot of jobs that are about to be cycled out of existence thanks to AI, I feel it’s imperative to help people learn skills that will keep them from being welfare lifers.
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That is correct. Some people will fight you though, and those people are better off fighting wars hahahahahah
It should be.
But the government decided that employees need to worth at least $X or it’s illegal to employ them, regardless of whatever other value they may derive from the arrangement.
That’s because they can’t tax skills earned like they can income.
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I love these types of topics.
To the OP, don’t take this as an L. You’ve gained more knowledge and experience to apply to your resume now. Giving you a chance at a better opportunity.
Growing up as an immigrant (got my green card now) I did all kinds of jobs, from janitorial to construction landscape and retail. The lowest I got paid at one point was $9.50/hr and the highest I got paid was 20/hr. That was me busting my ass every job I had, no time for bitching and whining. Sometimes that’s what we need to push ourselves through the bull shit and do what we really love.
I took a huge risk leaving my solid cash job and jumping into a start up grow where we were barely making money to stay afloat let alone getting paid(I was making $18/hr). Thankfully hardwork pays off, I won’t say how much I make now but I’m on salary now managing a lab and group of individuals eager and ready to grow. Sadly I’ve read far too many posts of individuals getting treated like shit in here. I my self had some issues with my current company but all has been resolved. The harder you work for your self the “luckier” you’ll get.
Take that L and turn it to a W.
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I have yet to make any employees work for free. I don’t agree with that at all. I have DEEP opinions about that, and it is probably the closest thing you and I have to a point of contention.
@Killa12345 knows what super fucked up work/people I chose over living in a commune (to develop basic survival skills I learned in 4h as an elementary schooler).
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This.
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You never paid a trim wook in weed?
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Would you consider that paying? It sounds more like a barter to me
I would consider learning a skill for work bartering as well, but yes I do consider that bartering.
I was trying to demonstrate the difference in bartering and working for free.
lol, you’re sound like a boomer/rich elitist.
There is no unskilled labor, only underappreciated labor. I think the pandemic and the destruction of our supply chains have demonstrated that very well. You need that “unskilled” labor, you just want them conditioned to not believe they’re worth a living.
Who the fuck isn’t worth minimum wage… considering minimum wage doesn’t even equal living wage in most of this country? Shameful.
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I was unskilled labor. I wanted to gain skills by spending as much time around @Graywolf as possible
PharmGold wasn’t hiring, it was a startup, and didn’t have a paid position for an unskilled employee.
So I offered to sweep the floors, for free. Nobody forced me to be there for free. I did it because I realized the value I would gain was far better than dollars.
I wasn’t even worth minimum wage to them.
Go on with your name calling though, I’m sure that plus your victim mentality will get you super far in life.
I wonder how many elitists volunteer their time for free to gain skills
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Of course elitists don’t think counting and sweeping floors is a skill.
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So you would hire an electrician to wire your house that had never done any electrical work?
he wasn’t unskilled, just unappreciated
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The only “elitist” here is the guy who thinks he is smarter than the actual people involved in the labor exchange.
I offer to work for free, PharmGold says sure, @anon88836658 comes over and tells us he knows better than either of us and demands the government stop us from freely associating
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What’s funny is this analogy isn’t even accurate, you’re assuming this guy is even an electrician.
We’re actually talking about taking a grocery store bag boy and teaching him to make hash.
I find once I train the bag boy, he performs better than a guy who THINKS he knows what he’s doing🤷♂️
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There’s a reason I like teaching janitors. My best tech right now was a janitor.
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“Previous experience” is code for bad habits I have to break😉
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