r/aboringdystopia

Models etc could be their own agent in theory. Some of them are. Im freelance and get some work through agencies and some work through my own methods.

Imagine you have a large service based business. You have the employees that provide the service and you have employees that are in the sales team. It makes sense to have these as two separate departments because the skill sets are different. Agents are basically sales reps. If there’s a problem the client goes to them. When you’re actually working, they’re looking for the next job for you. Agents also have a large set of contacts that they can call upon to look for work. Theyre the ones that are good at networking and talking clients into hiring you. They’re the ones that show up in google first.

If you’re a client looking for a model or actor, you don’t have time to go through endless google pages for independent models. What you want is to go to an agent and describe what you’re looking for, then they utilize their extensive talent pool to get you what you need fast and efficiently. They’ll also probably find a better model for your needs than you could find yourself. That is why clients will be willing to pay more to use an agency.

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Ok so since I already have a building inspector hired I can just ask them to give my work a once over?

Worth saying that it’s not the same as the Guinness that’s canned in Ireland. Hard to describe how it’s different. It almost tastes a bit like it’s got a bit of black table in there or something. If it wasn’t for the branding you wouldn’t think its the same company that makes it.

Would it have been lead paint in WW2? Im no paintologist but I’d assume that that’s even heavier?

Just gotta eat your vegetables, exercise regularly, don’t drink or smoke too much, work hard so you can afford a nice retirement home with lots of hotties and before you know it you’ll be attractive enough anyway to get laid right now and won’t have to wait until you need a pill to get a boner.

Also im sure that even if you survive the dangerous jobs, working manually your whole life and having screwed up joints must have an impact on your mental health and therefore exacerbate physical problems.

Yeah but we use it as a metric like this is under the assumption that as a whole higher GDP = Higher quality of life even though it’s far from perfect

Wartime economy is an odd one anyway. Lots of stuff that counts towards GDP but doesn’t actually improve people’s lives in a normal context. Like theoretically you could have a great GDP based off the production of military equipment but you spend it all on the front lines and don’t have enough leftover for food.

It’s basically a game. Let’s say I created a currency but I made a rule that you can only add a dollar to the pot if you scored a bullseye on a darts board. That’s all it really is. Except that the bullseye is the answer to an equation and the equation is created by a super high tech computer. It’s an arbitrary method of controlling how much money enters the economy

I visited it when I was 18. I was told how much beauty there was around but sadly I was one of the tourists cruising down the river in a rubber ring and getting off my head. I’d like to go back and do the grown up things instead though. Laos is stunning.

Your national bank will also create money out of nothing. It’s as simple as typing numbers into a computer. They don’t even need to bother printing it out. However if they suddenly added trillions of dollars then it would cause huge inflation issues in the economy, so they do it sparingly and responsibly. The difference with crypto is that the creators use the difficulty in solving the algorithm as a way to curb the production of their currency. If anybody was allowed to just add money to the currency then there would be runaway inflation. By making it deliberately very difficult to create it allows a slow and steady supply that doesn’t tank their economy.

Shame that the vast majority of tourists that go there never look up from their magic mushroom and opium shakes. Or is that all in the past now?

Not the answer you’re looking for but if you’re worried about frozen pipes you can get heated wires/tape that sticks to the pipes and switches on when the temp gets too cold.

Crypto is a catch all term to describe all digital currencies. Most of our existing currency is digital anyway but the difference is that crypto is entirely digital, therefore no physical coins or notes exist. The word comes from the word ‘Encrypted’ as each $ of the currency is usually heavily encrypted in order to stop fraud. Usually each $ is created by a computer solving an algorithm. You might have heard the term crypto mining which is basically where somebody creates a powerful computer than can solve these complex algorithms quickly and therefore create money quickly. There’s a lot of talk about crypto at the moment as it’s a popular and controversial way to invest. The value of a given crypto currency fluctuates (usually) much more violently than regular currency’s which means large gains and large losses are possible in a short spate of time.