It's not really spending. If you look at the resale values it is investing. High art is more investment than consumption (as they say, the rich get richer...)
What you fail to consider is that no one owns money. Once you die, you dont take your cash to the grave. Im getting philosophacal here, but people are only shepards to money. They are maintainers and once they die someone (or many) will take their fortune.
Like energy, wealth can not be destroyed - only transferred.
The reason billionaires are allowed to exist is because they do a good job of maintaining that money for themselves and others.
In my experience, these things have nothing to do with the language itself, but rather that it's a second language.
As a non native speaker, you just don't have those strong emotional connections to words that a native speaker would have.
Studies show that a foreign language uses more of the thinking brain rather than the feeling brain (they showed this by asking personal / sexual questions in different languages to multilingual people.)
Realize that your opinion and ability to predict market actions is completely unfounded.
Whatever they're working on is like research. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If you tell them it won't work (and you lack any relevant experience), they don't have a reason to believe you and neither do you frankly.
That's how I deal with it. I say to myself, who am I to judge?
One of the things I've thought about is relatively.
Consider a toddler strapped to his car seat in a luxurious BMW cocoon while his father speeds down the autobahn at 200km/h. He calmy drinks from his sippy cup.
You're in a passenger jet above him going 700km/hr. You're going 500km/hr faster than him.
But how fast are you really going?
Consider that the Earth is spinning around the sun at a rate of 1 billion kilometers per year or about 100,000 km/hr.
You're on Earth, so is your jet's true speed 100,700 km/hr?
Relative to the sun, yes, but everything that orbits our sun is considered our solar system which itself is orbiting our galaxy at a rate of 800,000 km/hr.
So if we add the 800k, 100k, and 700 km/hr your plane is moving, is it not fair to say you are traveling at almost a billion kilometers per hour?
I'm sure you can infer the galaxy itself is hurling through space at an ungodly speed.
I ask two questions:
1. When does this stop? What is the most supreme center in the universe?
2. Just as the child could roll down his window, and have instant access to the outside, is there a way we can do the same?
I am working on a networking algorithm and think this would be useful for testing and visualizing algorithms. But I had to look into the source and then the screenshots folder to figure out what this actually did.
You just have to develop some skills on how to better communicate your work to people. Everyone has this problem unless they develop the skills. Here's some things you should work on for promoting this project:
- User brainstorming. What kinds of people would find this tool helpful. I'll start off your list with 'anyone doing node algorithms, e.g. mesh networking, video game AI'
- Googlefu. Find these users across the web using Google's special operators. Note what kind of sites and communities they are a part of.
- Community reachout. Go to those communities and figure out how to communicate. If it's a blog or content site, could be as simple as leaving comments to more involved like writing posts.
In the switch varitation both the 1 man and 5 man group are tied to the tracks. For whatever reason we can assume fate has brought them there and it is our role to simply make the logical choice.
But to ask one to push a man right beside you, in the same situation you are in, is quite different. Not even morally related.