Enginomics

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enginomics

Title text: The second step is to get the cartoonists to leave town.

Votey

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Oh yes. And that's only the beginning.

The best way to improve the municipal economy is to attract a large number of engineers.

Engineers generate value by making teeny tiny improvements in things like car parts, search results, and banking sof tware.

However they think they generate value by 3d-printing the virtual decentralized blockchain of things or whatever.

Although you only want them for the actual value-creation work, in order to attract and retain them, you have to have the stuff they think matters.

So, you set up a cafe with bad coffee that accepts bitcoin but then immediately converts it to actual money. And a hackerspace with a bunch of 3d printers that are only good for impressing children. And a station for personal transport quadcopters that will never be built.

All this costs almost nothing, but the engineers will come! Come in their thousands! Like lemmings with

The entire municipal economic policy is to pay for pointless construction projects to sucker confused engineers into work they don't value.P

Opinions about python!

We are also

Hoping to sucker confused finance people, but yes.

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Are you in there alienating your target audience?! R.

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