Oceans of Wisdom

but that is my choice

which is why I am on the frontier

i would of course rather hari-kiri than do this

you want a "safe job" where the paycheck will land every month, well I dunno, the federal government is usually hiring

but out on the frontier, well, there are casualties

some people are called to it

at gunpoint

nobody is forcing anyone to the frontier

and go out to the frontier

but it is a deliberate decision to leave the comforting arms of normal society

it is very noble, it is very admirable

but entrepreneurs, artists, etc are looking for freedom, for independence, for being able to do what they want, to birth their world view on the world

if someone wants a steady salary, there are vast number of steady jobs available

the way our society is structured (correctly I believe) nobody owes an entrepreneur or artist or anyone who is structured that way with the agency to do what they want anything

and a lot of the discussion in NFT world is a bit naive about this

it is a multi party game

it is not a single party game

with their actions and dollars

also get a "vote"

because the other stakeholders (the gazelles) - the customers and competitors also have skin in the game, also are live players

anymore than anyone can guarantee that everyone who starts a company will become successful

nobody can fix this

it is because it is very hard!

of course it is mostly "failures"

to find a combination that works

you have to find your way through a hyper-dimensional landscape

in both cases there is no safety net

being an artists is like being a startup entrepreneur

and people get to go along for the ride doing tasks

someone else found product market fit

which is why most people are employees

is one of the hardest things in the world

eg. the people who want to purchase the thing you make for more money than it costs you to make it

but finding "product market fit"

both popular activities because the rewards emotional and financial and reputational to success are high

both these are high failure rate activities

for the same reason that it is "hard to make a successful startup business"

"why is it hard to make a career selling art"

more productive, more cooperative etc etc

because more educated citizens are better for the collective

even in countries with limited interest in the individual, there is mandatory schooling

so whether luxembourg or north korea, we have schools

but at the top level societies figured out they should try to educate everyone to reasonable levels

they matter at the next level of detail

these don't matter so much

now the details are implementation details - public only, hybrid, vouchers, whatever

it is one of the most obvious high ROI things in society to educate people

is that it has higher societal fitness

the reason all societies evolved to some version of this

it might be framed as charity, but it is not really