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aaaaaaadjsf ,
@aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net avatar

I get the soros bucks and Zuma bucks every year for making Jacob Zuma stan TikToks of course.

ArcaneSlime ,

No it’s like FOSS vs a paid service, they have to pay someone for the right to use their own brain.

WhyIDie ,

paid thinkers when pay2think is invented

DestroyMegacorps ,

pay2thinkers when piratethink is invented

Prethoryn ,
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I mean not everyone’s thoughts deserve to be paid for…

PeWu ,

raises up hand

balderdash9 ,

I’m an academic philosopher, and I approve this message

30p87 ,

Paid thinkers when thinkers subject to GPL 3.0 enter the room

Natanael ,

Affero GPLv3

Ajen ,

I mean… they can still be paid, it’s just that their thoughts have to be shared freely.

Spliffman1 ,
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https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/f76ff772-42c8-4664-bbb1-8b07ec66cb24.jpeg

This guy… Free or paid?

The_Picard_Maneuver OP ,
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website avatar

Used to be free, but then they encased him in stone.

Carion ,
@Carion@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz avatar

Free if you can carry it.

zifnab25 ,

joker-che If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

UlyssesT ,

My tabletop group pays me in food. you-are-a-serf

drbi ,

Paid thinkers exist. Corporate shills. Mostly higher level executives are paid thinkers. The term “thinking” may be exaggerated.

DigitalTraveler42 , (edited )

Government shills exist too, Ruzzia, China, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, US, UK, ans others have them to one extent or another. These shills operate either as members of their nations military, government, intelligence apparatus, or their state run Mafia (Ruzzia in particular on this point), or they work for contracted corporations, like the company Edward Snowden was working for when he discovered the data that he decided to whistleblow for us, Booz, Allen, Hamilton , or like Cambridge Analytica or Black Cube.

Shilling on the internet should be illegal, sock puppets are a form of social control, and an aspect of social engineering, anything that contributes to brainwashing should be made illegal to combat all the dis/misinformation and propaganda problems we see on the Internet and media.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

There are lots of jobs that are basically paid thinkers, IT is full of them but then again, you have to actually think or things won’t get done/fixed.

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

who in IT is just thinking and not doing stuff

newIdentity ,

Network designers?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Does that still fall under IT?

AlphaAutist ,

IT is just a blanket term so ya

balderdash9 ,

I’m not in that field but my guess is the higher you go career wise, the more you have meetings and the less you have time for hands on work

Ajen ,

True, but that’s not just thinking, it’s also debating and negotiating.

Franzia ,

My dad used to say “solving problems, that’s what I get paid the big bucks for.” He was a teacher.

nik282000 ,
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All the “paid thinkers” I know spend their careers explaining how every ongoing problem is not their fault, and that the people above and below them should have foreseen the problems that have only just now occurred.

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