Stage 2, Day 15,
Days are still pretty productive. Going pretty hard on logic.
I have been working with more intensity on Italian, and less on Spanish. I should try to bring that back.
I had a phone interview this morning; I lost interest after finding that it's in another city, and only 10 hours per week. This pretty much disqualifies the job.
I'm becoming increasingly pissed off at the ease in which people can be deceived into outrage. Facebook is a breeding ground for these sorts of things. Two videos I saw today:
i) Lady Gaga's new video, which has to do with sexual assault on campus.
ii) The guy who recently acquired a patent for a pill and then increased the price of his pharmaceutical drug.
The first; Watch the video and you'll understand; it displays a poor understanding of statistics (the 1/5 figure), the methods in which they are collected, and the way that statistics are warped to fulfill a political agenda. It is certainly propaganda. It certainly isn't helping their cause.
The second; the people who are commenting have a poor understanding of economics or business. Nor do they seem to understand the role of costs or profits. Again, watch the interview he has on Bloomburg; he goes on record in saying that if individuals cannot afford the product, they will cut the price to 1$ a pill.
But the main reason I'm okay with this comes down to how the aggregate react to newly high prices; they simply put their money somewhere else. And I guarantee that there are already various medications, which come from other companies, that treat the disease. Raising your prices does not necessarily lead to higher revenue. If anything, it will lead to less, as the group as a whole will look for much cheaper options.
I'm deliberately leaving out details so that you'll look these stories up on your own. Also, I do not want this thread to be found by a Google search on those topics.
This deeply concerns me; if people's emotions can be engineered so easily, who knows what sorts of things they can be convinced to believe in the near future.
Days are still pretty productive. Going pretty hard on logic.
I have been working with more intensity on Italian, and less on Spanish. I should try to bring that back.
I had a phone interview this morning; I lost interest after finding that it's in another city, and only 10 hours per week. This pretty much disqualifies the job.
I'm becoming increasingly pissed off at the ease in which people can be deceived into outrage. Facebook is a breeding ground for these sorts of things. Two videos I saw today:
i) Lady Gaga's new video, which has to do with sexual assault on campus.
ii) The guy who recently acquired a patent for a pill and then increased the price of his pharmaceutical drug.
The first; Watch the video and you'll understand; it displays a poor understanding of statistics (the 1/5 figure), the methods in which they are collected, and the way that statistics are warped to fulfill a political agenda. It is certainly propaganda. It certainly isn't helping their cause.
The second; the people who are commenting have a poor understanding of economics or business. Nor do they seem to understand the role of costs or profits. Again, watch the interview he has on Bloomburg; he goes on record in saying that if individuals cannot afford the product, they will cut the price to 1$ a pill.
But the main reason I'm okay with this comes down to how the aggregate react to newly high prices; they simply put their money somewhere else. And I guarantee that there are already various medications, which come from other companies, that treat the disease. Raising your prices does not necessarily lead to higher revenue. If anything, it will lead to less, as the group as a whole will look for much cheaper options.
I'm deliberately leaving out details so that you'll look these stories up on your own. Also, I do not want this thread to be found by a Google search on those topics.
This deeply concerns me; if people's emotions can be engineered so easily, who knows what sorts of things they can be convinced to believe in the near future.
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