Reply #13: Perhaps if I had a sentient supercomputer on my side, I'd agree with Heinlein [View All]

[Orrex]

In the real world, however, a diversification of job skills will only get you as far as the next round of layoffs, after which--I presume--we can all bootstrap ourselves into exciting new skill sets that will get us through to the next batch of firings.

It is in a corporation's interest to trivialize and minimize the individual, unless that individual joins the company already well-placed or well-connected. Everyone else can be (and eventually will be) cast off like excrement.

The "Diversification" model of professional Darwinism assumes that the playing field isn't controlled by the top players. Well, that isn't how the world works, so here's how to do it:

1. Inherit vast wealth.
2. Purchase a number of Senators and/or Representatives.
3. Do whatever you have to do, legal or otherwise, to ensure that you retain your wealth and position.
4. Fuck everyone and everything else.

There is no rule book, nor even a reliable guidebook, for anyone not in the privileged top 2%. Anyone who advises anything to the contrary is delusional or else stands to benefit financially from creating the delusion in others.


In addition, Heinlein couldn't write dialogue worth a damn, and his female characters are preposterously badly developed.