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Why does society have to optimize at scale for assigning credit to a minority? If anything the studies show value is emotionally subjective.

A healthy society takes a village. IMO there’s plenty of literal history to show isolating a minority from the demands the rest of us face is ripe for abuse at scale.

One person did not invent languages, lay down the highways and invent computers.

All the people we hold up relied not just on the historical invention to push them forward but society giving them space and not killing them. Every individual inventor is outnumbered.

IMO that space to be and do is what we should optimize for. Not a tether to tradition of emotionally wanking off a handful over what is ultimately a linguistic twist on an idea that was discovered/defined collectively

Yeah, well that’s just like... your opinion, man. Not a very interesting one. Par for the course online.

I have yet to encounter a manager who motivates me to get up and find a way to eat that day.

Just because they are there doesn’t mean the achievements are due to them.

There have been a number of attempts, tens of millions of dollars spent on one study alone, trying to quantify what technologies and people generate value.

The meta-conclusion considering all the studies I know of (traveling and not looking them up), is the math becomes so Byzantine it’s a pointless measure and we should just stick with ideology to avoid blowing up society in people’s minds (an idea that was peddled for thousands of years already, reaffirmed by math, glad we spent the time on it.)

Just because we’ve emotionally conditioned ourselves to engage our mechanical agency towards these ends does not imply it’s because of management.

Manufactured consent is a thing.

That it doesn’t act as a DHCP server or anything but what it’s for is my main reason for loving it.

Logical functionality should be decoupled to ease maintenance, reduce risk from complexity.

Config management tools can dump some text in a file for corporate needs.

Apply it over SSH or via git.

It’s just a bit of text to lay down.