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97 sats \ 14 replies \ @Aardvark 27 Feb \ on: The big idea: Charge $1 to apply to a job (hear me out) econ

I just brought this up to my wife, and not only does she agree but she says that they should have to pay to post a job listing as well due to the sheer number of fake job listing's. Apparently a lot of information gathering is happening on that end of things too.

42 sats \ 12 replies \ @elvismercury OP 27 Feb

Crap, hadn't even considered that angle.

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Aardvark 27 Feb

Me neither. Apparently my wife came up with the SN version of LinkedIn 😁

42 sats \ 10 replies \ @elvismercury OP 27 Feb

Makes me think of SN a little differently, something like: an honest general marketplace. The current SN is an honest marketplace of ideas, or at least, it has the tools to support evolution in that direction. But you could do a two-sided one for jobs and job-seekers, too.

Once you have something money-like, you have the possibility for reputation. (And, I suppose, vice-versa.)

27 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 28 Feb

Once you have something money-like, you have the possibility for reputation. (And, I suppose, vice-versa.)

Can you elaborate this? I thought of Justin Sun when I read this line and shuddered but that's probably because I misunderstood.

150 sats \ 5 replies \ @elvismercury OP 1 Mar

You might not have. I expressed it poorly, but:

Reputation -> money: if you are known to work hard, be honest, and do a good job, you'll have a good reputation and can leverage it to make money.

Money -> reputation: the getting of money confers a reputation, based on the nearly subconscious idea that people get money when they're of service to others, when "of service" is distributed across the entire universe of human interaction. It's highly but not completely untrue. Probably the more relevant one is that reputation accrues from power, and power and money are much more tightly inter-related.

57 sats \ 4 replies \ @optimism 1 Mar

I'll admit that direction reputation->money can work. But its not a given. I know many high reputation plebs. Its not always possible to profit from it nor is it required.

I have severe issues with the reverse. You don't trade in reputation. Its not for sale or barter. Even though every politician does this and nowadays nearly the whole corporate world tries with their tit for tat LinkedIn recommendations.