Comments by "nexus1g" (@nexus1g) on "The Take" channel.

The opposite is true in reality, however. The issue is no longer understanding what work is and dealing with too much time on our hands. Being busy is good. Almost all of our history has been spent too busy to bellyache. For almost all of its history save for the last 3,500 years or so, constant work has been survival for humans. It's only recently that people have found time and a level of comfort to be capable of moaning about work and coveting what others have amassed.
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@gotthecutenessoverload1086 Get your internships in while in school. Apply even if you don't meet requirements. You may still be the most qualified that applies.
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@loxodoncyclotis1823 Prove it.
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@loxodoncyclotis1823 For the production sector, you reduce staff while maintaining market saturation. This is not true for service, support, infrastructure, pretty much everything that's not production. Water treatment for a city requires several thousand manhours per week. Sewers don't maintain themselves. Product does not transport itself. Even production itself still requires constant worker attention. Fewer workers are needed per job, but that's still time intensive work. Get you head out of Das Kapital and other trash.
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@1997lordofdoom "this is a comment against the 'work hard to be successful ideology of Capitalism" It's the life is work fact of being human. If anything, we're slowly attaining more and more free time as we move forward and have more efficient means of completing necessarily life tasks like preparing meals and cleaning. I couldn't even imagine to having such a disconnect to have any kind of belief that work does not equate to life as a human being, being grateful for the immense amount of free time we have gotten to.
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@GenerationX1984 What are you even talking about? Just do something others find useful so you're giving back to the people of civilization for what you're taking from those people of civilization.
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@GenerationX1984 Their talents have to be something others find value in. That's how an artist gives value back to the people in civilization that provide value for the artist. If not enough people find value in the work to support them by consuming it, then it's not a meaningful contribution. And you act as though music and art isn't a LOT of boring, monotonous, menial labor peppered with a sparse moments of creative energy. The entire execution of a work is the boring, monotonous, menial labor, and is 99% of it.
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@GenerationX1984 No, being an independent artist is starting your own business. That's just the general issues in starting a business. Are these contractors trying to screw me over or are they reasonable in price and skill? What's my audience? How do I reach them most effectively so they buy my crap? Is this lawyer I'm using to draw up my S-corporation documents taking too long? Is he doing it right? Am I going to get screwed down the line? Hopping from bank to bank to try to sell the business plan to get a loan to afford all of this. Managing marketing materials; ensuring that marketing is reaching my target audience through whichever mediums I have to choose from, whether TV, radio, internet, etc. Managing spending. Managing the books so you even know if you're making money. Reinvesting in further marketing, legal and contract help, but not too much so that you can't pay yourself at the end of the day. There's the tip of the iceberg. There's also everything involved in managing and running the daily business of the business. It has its unique elements; perhaps instead of a bank to get a loan and contractors, you deal with an agent instead, but none of it is easy. You want it to be easy or something? You think it should be? What qualifies as easy to you? What qualifies as easy to the next person? Does easy also necessarily mean less legal recourse for the public and yourself from disingenuous people? Just like every warning on a product has a good reason for being there, each complexity has a good reason for being there -- that is, some dumb ass came along and ruined the simplicity for us requiring us to plan against such dumbassery in the future. And in the end it's not bad luck if you fail and good luck if you succeed. If you lean on that, you never learn what you did wrong that caused you to fail and you don't grow.
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@GenerationX1984 Here you seem to equate being street smart, shrewd, and conserving one's wealth with sociopathy and that they are not skills that should be required for success. I would say the ones that buck such skills are the ones ill prepared for and feed the sociopaths. Am I wrong or do you have supporting arguments for this position?
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