Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Timcast"
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Remember GATTICA, where they went on the first date, Uma Thurmon's character snuck a hair from Vincent and went to a kiosk and had it INSTANTLY full genetically sequenced?
That is the dating future I see in our current biotech revolution. Your date goes to the bathroom, you surreptitiously swab a few skin cells off her glass, put the sample in the dongle that plug into your smartphone, and DING 10 seconds later here's their whole genetic makeup, yes they're a woman, OOO there's some major risk factors for this list, have no kids with this person, your kids will be f-ed up especially combined with YOUR dna...
We're there TODAY, it's just the cost and availability. I got the full scan from 23&me when I decided I wanted kids someday, and thank god I have 0.00% inheritable diseases, I'm not a carrier for anything horrific, so there's at least that
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That's because Dr Fauchi and the CDC were consultants on that movie. It's screenplay is adapted from the actual response plans, the plans we're seeing real-world today.
If you've ever taken any of the FEMA independent study courses to certify for a job or position, none of this is a surprise, it's all rigidly planned and refined over decades.
WHILE YOU'RE LOCKED INDOORS, now is a perfect time to take some of those FEMA classes, it's free insider knowledge real estate. Start with the Incident Command System (ICS) as it's the base level you need to know, then work up to the NIMS (National incident management system) and finally to the top dog big daddy that ties it all together from the top down, the NRF, The National Response Framework.
Hell, they even have classes on how to run a distribution center under martial law, lots to learn.
https://training.fema.gov/nims/
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But that's the whole problem as I see it, you're not sitting at home. You're sitting at work, where you now LIVE. The whole point of working, to me, is to not have to work anymore at some point lol. You're giving your home time to your employer and then working MORE? I like the compartmentalization of being able to leave work.
ALSO, I hire engineers, it's on site or nothing. I'm not paying you MORE than I make at work for you to call me or zoom, no, you're billing triple-digits an hour you're driving here.
I stopped hiring an engineer I liked because of his billing practices. Phone call, $2000. Site visit, $2000. Email consult, $2000. He flat-feed everything, even when I or others did the work, that PE stamp is just a money press. Now he gets 100% of zero of our business.
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But here's the issue there, if you don't have all that travel overhead, you should get a reverse-premium on your pay. It's cheaper for you to work, you need less pay. Simple. Prorate remote wages to account for the lack of travel expenses. Those who choose to work in office get a premium/differential. Similar to shift work, third shift in a factory often gets a few more $ an hour as incentive/compensation for working overnights.
Call it pay equity if you want.
The other issue I see with remote work is the global aspect of it. If YOU can do the job by remote for $50k/year, then maybe someone in the third world with a Starlink dish can do your exact job for $10k, so I hire 4 of them, get 400% more productivity and pocket that extra $10k a year.
Teachers did this, oh look during covid we made remote learning work SO WELL, so now I'm asking why do we need these millions of local in person teachers? Fire them, keep the very best ones, pay them twice as much to remote teach all US students nationwide at a high standard, cut local school district taxes by billions a year.
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The reverse of that is what took down Enron and the us economy by extension, mark to market accounting, where you get to have an idea, project it's potential profit, then just say that profit exists, so now we have the money on our balance sheet.
Hey, I have an idea, wow, this could make us 10 billion over 10 years....cool, now we have $10 billion dollars in revenue we can use as collateral for borrowing actual cash, repeat!
You can't pay people expected money lol. It's too abusable. That stock you own, WE think it's going to quadruple next year, so you now owe 400% more taxes on that
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