How things have changed!

This is the first part of our article

asciilifeform: possibly this is the root of disagreement -- asciilifeform takes mircea_popescu's old warning of 'just say no to any dealings with the malignantly stupid poor'(tm)(r) to heart, doesn't deal with the '50%', doesn't need them for anything whatsoever

The bit he references is a 2012 piece, Strategic superiority, a saga. It says, specifically,

Honest toil not so much, but honest cunning aplenty in this fabled subsection of the population, the offensively stupid poor. The costs of the strategic mistake of dealing with them are huge.

Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whatever they're called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they've done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.

Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not a sound business plan but a strategic mistake.

Six years ago that was even correct ; but meanwhile consider

The second part of our article

LordMPofTMSR 37M Master 1w Not even kidding.

lady_von_luft The subject line of your message got cut off so I have no idea what you were trying to say.i

LordMPofTMSR Sucks being on the phone, huh.ii

lady_von_luft 24F sub Yeah. So you gonna tell me what it said or what?

LordMPofTMSR Nah. It also functions as a test of intelligence (which you failed) and of personality (which you failed in spades). Get lost, seriously.

LordMPofTMSR 37M 18h Not even kidding. Master Not even kidding.

Brat_Alice 23F Brat That's a nice way to greet a stranger

LordMPofTMSR I agree.iii

Brat_Alice So tell me the truth, how many people did you send this cut and paste message to?

LordMPofTMSR Every single female under 25 with a coupla pics in their profile.

Brat_Alice Okay, thanks for your honesty U+1F602iv

Brat_Alice But you've made me feel very unspecial

LordMPofTMSR You are very unspecial.v

LordMPofTMSR 37M Master 1d Not even kidding.

LittleMissSwaney 21F sub OK well I can't read the full message that you've put because you've put a message in the subject box. Great work on that one. Funnily enough though I know exactly what it says because I have multiple friends that have received this exact same message from you. So how about you drop whatever it is that YOU'RE doing and get a personality instead of copy pasting it. Not even kidding.

LordMPofTMSR You don't understand how the world works. See, there's so many of you ~worthless kiddos about, the only possible approach is statistical. When given the opportunity to speak, most fail ineptly. Some fail spectacularly, such as for instance you. A precious few succeed. That's pretty much all it is.

In conclusion

I'll break a tail just for you and see what it has to say to us. Here :

$ wc -l res4.txt

256235 res4.txt

That is quarter million this month.vi

That's roughly speaking the amount of sea churning it takes to produce one maybe-usable candidate to slavery bootcamp. Just one.vii

The fixed costs of this are, for the record, negligible -- electricity is still 0.006 or so ECu per Jouleviii, and there's a whole lot of work modern machinery's willing to do to get that sweet, sweet, delicious Joule. Machinery which, by the way, can be had for just about the asking, amortisation of capital goods costs even less than what the juice costs.

This doesn't account for the human factor, of course, and this is where the article comes together : yes my time is extremely valuable, being as I am the only me aroundix. But the reason my time is valuable, and the proof that I am the only me around comes from the circumstance that I created this environment wherein conversion from taxpayer to slavegirl can happen. That is why, and that's how we know!

We don't just go about claiming things in this here Republic (because, again, we don't tend to trade position for process, in this here Republic) ; but instead we make pudding-proofs. In fact, this is as fine a definition of La Serenissima as any can ever be had : a never ending, ever interlocking succession of pudding-proofs!

And this is what has changed since 2012. It's not just and simply "times have changed, please upgrade". It's that in the intervening six years the Republic itself has grown, and developed.

In the intervening six years the Republic has reached heights of legal, technical and cultural sophistication unmatched abroad!

Consider the legal aspect :

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-20#1836840

Tuesday, 24 July, Year 10 d.Tr.