Surgeon: Some of my patients request bladder surgeries while in reality their problems could be solved with a few simple diet supplements. But I just do the procedure and take the money. Just bought my 3rd Tesla, thanks to superfluous bladder operations!
I know selling people shit they don't need is celebrated as an achievement nowadays, but feels like it shouldn't be.
When I was younger I had a pain in my abdomen I had never experienced before. My grandmother told me to go to their family doctor who was probably older than they were. He pushed on some things and tapped on some things and finally diagnosed me. "It's gas. Go home and have a big fart." Sure enough, hours later, a big release and the pain was gone.
These days I'd have been sent in for at least an MRI or CAT scan to go along with all the blood work that they would do.
Now, I know what some of you are going to say. "But it COULD have been something way worse!" Sure, it could have been. But this guy had been a doctor for a long time by that point and knew from experience that it was gas. Just like when I recently had to rebuild a really old server and was getting errors that suggested missing class files but, after 25 years of doing this, I knew that it was actually missing a PHP module.
Less is more and experience is golden.
I mean one of the most famous stores is of experienced doctor refusing to wash their hand because they know better based on their "years of experience"
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
I don't think (I hope?) anyone is celebrating "cheating the rubes". But I respect GP's ability to be honest about it -- it's super useful to the rest of us. For instance if we've been skeptical of k8, seeing someone who's an expert in it say that makes us think ok maybe we're on to something.
Most people in that position would keep their mouths shut, and probably keep themselves from admitting to themselves what's up.
It leads to so much crap, but it's great for self-preservation.
The dieting is a perfect example - many health issues can be solved by losing weight but few people want to make the lifestyle changes necessary to do that.
I didn't have the will to make lifestyle changes until I had a serious bout of sciatica. I needed that external motivator of torturous pain to be able to commit to changing my eating and fitness habits.
Two and a bit years later I'm down 12Kgs and slim and healthy (but, ironically, still have back pain issues that requires minor surgery to alleviate).
"Don't worry, it's only for the rest of your life". If you can come to terms with that, you're ready to start.
Some founder I work for might make billions on products people don’t need, why shouldn’t I make $50k off of him? Isn’t that how capitism works?
It's like someone bought a Mercedes. Nobody needs a Mercedes, they could drive a Toyota. But now they need an oil change, and that's what you do, and they'll pay you for it.
To be fair, as a kubernetes consultant, he's probably not qualified to determine whether or not they will hit it big.
What he probably is qualified for is to determine if they were to serve 100x their current load, would they be well served by kubernetes.