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haele

(12,676 posts)
Sun Jan 7, 2024, 12:20 PM Jan 2024

My Two Cents - Tech Bros, Financial "Wizards", Pundits and Academia....

My Two Cents based on my opinions, shaped by six decades of academic experience (I was a good baby and my parents often took me to their college classes which I still vaguely remember), technical and humanities education and research.

1. Research and Experimentation is iterative. It builds on previous discoveries or writings. Therefore, logically, as individuals or groups work to advance a science, ideas, or their personal positions, these advancements are influenced by a myriad of whatever went before. They simply pick what resonates with their personal philosophical view and go with it.

2. People who are not sitting on their laurels because they gaslight themselves that they are at the top of their fields are constantly reading about or experimenting with the latest advances within their chosen fields.
These people are the ones who are too busy actually doing the work and refining the new information and technology to make headlines or show up for the cameras at conferences, fancy dress events, and on TV/Streaming services on a weekly basis.
You know, the people who are writing the scripts or realizing the ideas for the Bro or Wizard CEOs or Pundit mouthpieces - the Staff.

3. Tech Bros, Pundits, and "Financial Wizards" who find themselves in positions of power routinely plagiarize other people's ideas and work. Especially literary works they read as teenagers.
Those whose high incomes depend on the more emotion based sciences that make up successful political influencing, media dissemination, marketing and branding are constantly referencing authors whose works influenced their career choices.

I have noted before that if one looked at the educational and work background between someone like me, an average computer technician turned Project Manager and Systems Engineer, and Billionaire Tech Bros like Elon Musk or Larry Ellison, the primary differences are the initial financial backing to get into a good university and network, personal marketing, successful plagerization (err, leveraging on or buying out) of other people's hard work and ultimately luck.
One could say the same thing about the average accountant/bank manager like my brother in law and Bill Ackerman or Jimmie Dimon.

My Two Cents. Go ahead and Discuss.

Haele

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My Two Cents - Tech Bros, Financial "Wizards", Pundits and Academia.... (Original Post) haele Jan 2024 OP
One also needs a certain amount of ruthlessness if not outright sociopathy. Ocelot II Jan 2024 #1
Small anecdote limbicnuminousity Jan 2024 #2
Personally, I like and... Hugin Jan 2024 #3
Everything you state is why I am disheartened that so many listen to the likes of eLoon as if he is all knowing or... dutch777 Jan 2024 #4
But...but... moondust Jan 2024 #5

limbicnuminousity

(1,404 posts)
2. Small anecdote
Sun Jan 7, 2024, 12:43 PM
Jan 2024

Years ago a collaborator and I decided to shoot for a DARPA grant. We decided to play by their rules which meant having an acronym because the military likes acronyms. We settled on SMART DIRECTION: Scar Modification and Regeneration Through DAMP-Induced Remodeling, Engineered Cellular Therapies, and Integrated Organic Neogenesis. That was a bit wordy, but was an accurate description of the proposed project.

The reviewers liked the acronym but refused to fund the work. The problem? We proposed to heal injured soldiers with traumatic head wounds instead of making better soldiers.

Glad to be out of science.

Hugin

(33,198 posts)
3. Personally, I like and...
Sun Jan 7, 2024, 01:09 PM
Jan 2024

Agree with your thoughts and years of my interactions with the subjects of your impressions offers independent evidence of your view points.

dutch777

(3,035 posts)
4. Everything you state is why I am disheartened that so many listen to the likes of eLoon as if he is all knowing or...
Sun Jan 7, 2024, 01:27 PM
Jan 2024

...even wise. These folks certainly have a perspective and some insider knowledge, but I would not look at them as prescient or visionaries in areas beyond their base expertise (assuming they really have any).

moondust

(20,003 posts)
5. But...but...
Sun Jan 7, 2024, 02:02 PM
Jan 2024
Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing

Layin' around on one of your yachts countin' yer billions and sippin' mint juleps is hard werk! Steve deserves a raise!

(Just remember...it is NOT a system of overt slavery so it's okay.)

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