Was reflecting on a related thought earlier: my income over the years has typically been anti-correlated with the social value of whatever I'm doing. (There are exceptions). I don't think this is unusual at all: the labor market for creative work seems mindbogglingly inefficient
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the adjacent aspect that's also echoing in my head as I read this is time, e.g. "sometimes the project lead just needs to spend 10 actual dedicated minutes thinking about thing X"
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I ran a business, for years, which was an existence proof that asking one question and providing one default answer could repeatably result in millions of dollars at relatively well-operated companies. (The question: "What should we do re: pricing?" The answer: "Charge more.")
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I know of surprisingly many papers - some of them reasonably important - where someone saying "you should do that" is the marginal difference between it existing and not...
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Isn't this the basis of micro-lending? Is there a funding equivalent to giving $20 to rural Bangladeshis?
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