You can always rub one out. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) P.S. Should fix your door.

Uncle Ruckus, no relation.

Never. But they can still be broke and/or insolvent.

When the drugs wear off.

Well, there’s your problem. Don’t get high for the job you have. Get high for the job you want.

Some people take “No Stupid Questions” to mean, it’s ok to ask a genuine question in a safe space where you won’t be made to feel like an idiot for the asking.

Others take it as a challenge. “Oh yeah? I’ll show you a stupid question.”

I just KNOW there is a record label executive with degrees in economics (math) and a side interest in quantum computing who is taking notes trying to figure the opportunity to produce the next thousand years of our greatest music.

happening in my lifetime.

How long is that?

5

5 what? Decades? Years? Months?

4,3…

I have no idea how to even try to tackle this. Yet this is one of the best “no stupid questions” in a long while. Not only is it not stupid, it’s inspired. Complex yet impractical, thus perfectly suited to this sub. Bravo!

What if “burning cash” wasn’t a metaphor? The grift collects cash. Then there is a pit surrounded by stones and a significant pyre?

Bad faith. Grow up.

If you stoped repeating the same mistakes over and over again and tried to think “where could this be right” instead of " find a wrong, even a stretch that doesn’t belong and disprove" you would be a more reasonable person to talk to.

E.g. (clearly needed here)

You think the rarity of Bill Gates disproves my point. I say a friend who is neurodivergent and a high school drop out literally just bought cleaning supplies and started going door to door to businesses on a strip asking if they needed a good scrubbing. He did a few gigs on the spot for pocket change, but quickly found several of the 2nd story offices were displeased with their after-hours cleaning contractors. A few offered a trial to prove my dude could do a good job. Once proven they offered annual contracts. The landlords and tenants all talk to each other and word got around. Boom! Entrepreneur. Today he has 3 vans and 7 employees. Still doesn’t know what standard deviation is.

This type of opportunity is everywhere. It’s not the kind that is offered. It’s the kind you find or make yourself. The biggest barrier to entry here is not trying. I could go on all day. But why? The point is made and you’ll either get it, or not.

As long as my right to destroy is intact, it’s deplorable, but manageable.

None of what you say is wrong. Statistically speaking you’re making two mistakes:

You are overemphasizing what is the primary path for most and concluding that everything else should be excluded. Why cut someone struggling from 31.46% of the jobs that don’t fit the optimal 1st standard distribution?

It literally isn’t as rare as you think. I know a great many overeducated and unemployed as well as a great many high-school dropouts that are Entrepreneurs, Sr Consulting Software Architects and Successful Artists.

When someone is struggling, consider the normal path might be why. A broader approach that doesn’t prejudice viable alternatives for the crime of being “not the most popular option” is prefferrable.

This is good. But “need” is perhaps too strong. Lots of highly successful people without education. Lots of highly educated people who couldn’t cut it. Plus it too has barriers of it own (costs, loansharking student loans)

It’s good, but isn’t the only way.

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Have you considered the “other” economy?

• Prostitution or pimping
• Drug selling (B2B naturally, not retail lol)
• Drug manufacturing
• Panhandling
• Arms Trafficking
• Terrorism (eco, political, religious,)
• Religion (start your own church. There is a low barrier to entry here as a street preacher, plus you can combine this with some of the others, but you can work your way up to megachurch pastor with your own jets.)
• Mugging/Home Invader/Burglary
• Crime Enforcer a.k.a. the kneecapper
• Politician
• Spy/snitch (private/corporate/government)

It’s really about understanding yourself. What are your needs? What are your natural strengths? When you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.

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Edit: A seriously helpful answer that ties into this. I’ve worked closely with retail executives. It’s awful for you on purpose. Their business model is built on low barrier to entry and suffering. You are right to stay away. My above joke was not only meant to be funny. Who doesn’t need a giggle at times like this? But it was also to get you to think in different ways. Making a living is not the same as getting a job with an employer. That’s only one way, and it often sucks. Think entrepreneurship (non-criminal). Think lemonade stand. Not as stupid an idea as it sounds - Martha Stewart got started selling pies outside a plaza. Lateral thinking can help you here. Get outside of your own assumptions and consider a broader perspective.

• Start your own cleaning company. Residential or commercial.
• Daycare, Nanny, Au-pair.
• Food services
• Personal shopper
• Home care PSW.

Edit2: Tough crowd. Humour is difficult.

“No Kings but the Burger King™” could get traction.

Zeroing in “Missing the oily lustre”

1. Beans have natural variation in batches as seasons change and inventory updates. Old beans, dry beans etc… Could try another coffee for comparison.

2. Under extraction: Never mentioned the press, or your grinder. If your press is manual like a Flair, extraction is super sensitive to pressure which is dominated by grind size. If your grinder is aging, either slipping settings or wear on burrs could subtly increase grind size. Put the two together and boom! Underextraction, even with unperceptably small wear.

If you have an automatic espresso machine, could be slight changes in plumbing, like boiler temp (check with thermometer) or pumps. Service, repair, replace or simply retune via settings and controls.

Try one notch higher to bump extraction.

They are huge in real estate photography.

I disagree and I don’t think you got it, but I updoot for good faith, some fair points, wit and humour. I’ll always drink to that. ;)

Heresy! Where are the turtles? It’s turtles all the way down.