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This week, we’re joined by Pax Dickinson for a discussion on WeSearchr.
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Excellent!
Though I appreciate the attempt, I found the execution at times disjointed. Be it a technical issue or simply the inability of one interlocutor to allow another one to complete their statements…It would have been a better exchange if these folks hadn’t step on each other more often than not…
Agreed. It wasn’t helped by my own limited bandwidth at time of recording.
Of course it’s a bigger pain for you — surprise surprise — but what you could try would be to have everyone use local voice-recorders also, and then have them them email you their resulting locally-recorded MP3 files right after you finish.
Then you’d use your all-voices “common” recording only for synchronizing the local audio files to each other. In the end you’d turn the “common” recording’s volume down to 0.
How easy is this in practice though? I don’t know.
Thanks! We’ve been at this for a while now, and this was the first time the BW problem came from me. We understand the source and what to do to make sure it is the last time!!
Also:
All smartphones have memo-recording apps built-in, so of course, duh, that’s how you could make those per-person “hi-fi” sound channels.
Anyway. It’s your show, do your thug your way, and thank you very much for doing so. This is some hot shit here.
Appreciate what you do, Nick! All the best…
Thanks to Pax for explaining how the media keeps itself stuffed with the upper class by paying its reporters next to nothing.
Here’s a question:
What other industries/fields work that way?
Social work?
Liberal arts graduate study?
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Not really sure social work is in that echelon. It’s low pay, but not terribly high prestige.
Overall though, an excellent question. Basically anything that high prestige, low (or even zero) pay is going to attract privileged people and keep working class people out.
pretty much anything pertaining to liberal arts
Low pay, high prestige… preferring graduate study, but low-pay…
Print media.
Stage theater.
Gallery art.
Museum work.
(international NGO stuff?)
(medicine?)
(teaching?)
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Meanwhile, on the flip-side, I’ve been encouraging the young fellows at my church that they need to look for fields that are both A) indispensable for civilization, but also B) low-status. For example:
Welding.
Concrete.
Plumbing.
Electrician/HVAC.
Violence (cops/bouncers/private-security/bodyguards).
Construction management.
Civil engineering/utilities.
Sewage/water.
Heavy/diesel engines.
(all the things I could do for better pay, but don’t want to!)
I’m so glad Pax is on our side. He’s a force to be reckoned with.
I wonder how long is the long tail of the distribution of Wesearchr, i.e. how scattered are the donations to investigative journalism, etc. If there are untold thousands of single persons, who donate 20 dollars to causes for which nobody else or only couple of other persons donate, they are not likely to cajole anybody into doing investigations. Is there any system with which excess scattering is made less likely, and enough aggregation around important causes more likely.
Good idea, cause and business anyways.
-Charles Johnson is definitely a force to be reckoned with. Best of luck with your endeavors. I also like the fact that Chuck will not hesitate to file lawsuits, perhaps you could also set up a legal fund for yourselves.
-It is amazing that a movement as populated with techies as it is, still has such low quality online media. I have yet to see an Alt Right you tube channel with the kind of production values of leftist shows. And even the best podcasts are still occasionally plagued by someone not using a MIC and skype gaps. Sorry for bitching.
-When you guys mention all these chans and pols and gizoids and and tecmos, I have no idea what you’re talking about. Neither do I live online or plan to, but thanks for making Social Matter fresh and keeping a toe in the public water.
There are a lot of jobs that are better if you’re a trust funder or an H1Ber. The system favors legacy wealth and cheap foreign labor. The propadanda of the “American Dream” has been designed primarily to prevent us from becoming disillusioned by this obvious reality and to keep taking out those mortgages, student loans, car loans and credit cards.
Yeah, it was pretty inside baseball. A high level of inside baseball-ness is often assumed of our listeners. Those who get it should consider it a compliment.
Please listen to some of our previous podcasts. We generally do a much better job sounding professional.
Yes. I listen to your podcasts. I apologized for bitching. It was interesting.
FTR, I absolutely and categorically disagree with the Free Speech for People Who Believe in Free Speech proposal. It is a fundamentally liberal proposition—one which lead liberal democracies precisely to the state at which they now find themselves. Liberalism is an acid that eats away at the organic bonds of society. Do you think Lenny Bruce didn’t really believe in Free Speech? Or Al Goldstein??
That said, “Free Speech” as a strategic weapon against our enemies is currently proving an effective wedge. And I support it’s use in this way.
An important caveat. The official NRx position is that the state needs a state religion that is kept sane, and heretics and infidels are purged because they’re ruining everyone else’s stability and sanity.