On 2019-09-19 11:39, Punk wrote:
lots of things can be done with little capital and no 'supervision'.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 07:18:49PM +1000, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Lets see if you can make a pencil without a boss telling you how to do it.
On 2019-09-19 19:43, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
"without a boss telling you how to do it" is in a real sense a sort of non-sequitor or irrelevancy.
Why label the sharing of information, tutoring and/ or learning process as one involving "a boss"?
For a group of people to get anything done, someone has to be in charge. And it will not be done right unless the guy in charge knows how it should be done. I am sure we have both attended more than enough committee meetings. When Wernher von Braun was merely sharing information and tutoring at NASA, the rockets did not work. They had to put him in charge. And when he retired, they still had all that information and the people he had tutored, but the rockets stopped getting better, started to get worse, and started to fail. Shockley shared information and advised, he wrote the book, but transistors did not get built, except for a tiny number of not very reliable prototype transistors and those he personally and individually made. When he formed a company of which he was the boss, *then* transistors were mass produced. Rather more people can successfully operate a restaurant than can build rockets or transistors, but still, the vast majority of people cannot successfully operate a restaurant. The vast majority of people who attempt to do so, fail. Suppose the guy at the restaurant who *can* operate a restaurant is not the boss. He is merely sharing information and advising. The restaurant is going to fail.