And I say this as someone who could have used it multiple times in the last few years, though admittedly not a good prototypical case (2/2).
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- As a grad student/freelancer, the timing of invoices & stipends means any causal link between work & compensation has vanished.
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...major red flag for control engineer like me. Stable provisioning of positive good with no feedback = implausible.
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- Well, that's a bit asocial, now, isn't it? Prestige, popularity, respect, glory.
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those are all cultural feedback variables on consumption side, not economic feedback variables on production side
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- Bollocks. And the production/consumption binary is a product of the second half of the twentieth century.
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production/consumption not entirely arbitrary poli-sci construct. Maps neatly to thermodynamics. Exo/endothermic...
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- Human culture/society != physics. Hell, physics doesn't even hold together across scales.
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aha! I knew you were secretly a humanist/anthropocentrist all along :D
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- And correlation != causation. (Trolling a bit, now, and in a weird mood, but will follow up over email.)

