Biases - but if I may - I've been on both sides and as an ex-entrepreneur, I feel I'm really easy going especially when it comes to office stuff. Have a chair? Great now let's solve this business issue. I don't expect much really and I'd say less than most as we're used to do more with less - as long as it's decent pay for the work and the team rocks.
Now when it comes to office politics... I have to agree. I and most of us have no patience for incompetence and time burning in meetings and coffee talks...
Seems a bit harsh. Playing video games has no particular ROI (unless you want to go into creative arguments), but they cost money and take up time. Fulfillment, joy, wisdom, those are valuable even if you can't exchange them for cash.
The issue is probably rather the insane costs of education in some countries. If I had to go into debt for a big chunk of my life to study, I'm not sure I would have done it without a clear path towards paying that off.
And then lets the services like health care, prison and education be butchered for profit (that doesn't come back to the public good but feeds inequality)
The U.S. doesn’t spend most of its budget on “foreign governments”. The reason public services in the U.S. are so bad despite such high taxes is extreme inefficiency.
If we’re talking about an individual’s ROI ( as the article does ) without taking into account the overall economic benefits, then why isn’t it fair to call something free if an individual doesn’t have to pay for it themselves?
But the cost to the service user is what has bearing on the ROI calculation for those individuals. Different organisational funding systems have different interests.
I wouldn't really call university part of education outside of a few specialized vocational degrees.
It's more a life experience, part of growing up (if you have the luxury of being able to afford it) - basically a half-way house between being at home and looked after by your parents, and being out in the job market having to be responsible for yourself.
If there's one critical thing we need is differences in opinion. Please continue sharing as it forces me to think differently - here and everywhere.
I'm all for helping others, and especially the weakest. But when I see students and other folks with full bellies and ideas considered the "weak" that's when I'm lost.
Great read - and exactly my thoughts when I started seeing my kids and all their friends get a bunch of tattoos... Around the pool they all now look the same. Oversimplified, but that made me laugh.
Kinda out of context, but it's funny how I played with my kid for years around computers, games, code camps and so on since he was 3yo - now at 20 he has no interest whatsoever in "coding" but is absolutely absorbed by chemistry - now in pharmacology in university. Anyway, cheers on the project - kids and the time we spend with them is so important.
"There was no one there to tell you what to do. In the military, there was a change of command." With all due respect - in close to 30 years being a contractor and now executive, I've essentially never had anyone telling me what to do. When you're decent at your job - this is how people roll.
"You’ll never hear a baker say their job is bullshit." Disconnection from our work and results in general is a people killer - It always surprises me more aren't sensitive to this great truth of life...
Best memories ever - 30 years ago was just fun and games - literally and wires! To all that are appreciative of this old school style of gaming - have a great day.
Being part of one of the biggest in the world back in 2002 was also very cool.
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