You're comparing an incubator space for entrepreneurs to Arab households hiring Asian nannies? OK.
Even the Microsoft comparison is not the same because Microsoft and the temps were not aligned with equity stakes.
Living with other coders actually would be appealing to some people. To those who do not find it appealing I would suggest they don't use Blueseed's services. I am not sure why there is confusion around this point. Blueseed is proposing an incubator space, not a slave ship.
There is no way Blueseed is going to make money on this by using commodity labor. I think the only way this is successful is if their equity stakes provide an outsized return on investment. So it will only work if Blueseed attracts the best and brightest and sets them up to succeed. Why would Blueseed risk getting a reputation for exploitation?
No, I'm comparing working at a place where your rights are secured by law to a place where they aren't or it's not clear what rights you have, hence the nanny example.
"There is no way Blueseed is going to make money on this by using commodity labor."
I think this is exactly what they have in mind, otherwise why not just build/buy someplace near SF. Or if it's the ship idea that attracts the "best and the brightest" why not just park it somewhere on the shore near the city, why does it have to in international waters. The only explanation I can come up is that they will use cheap Asian and Indian labor. If you have an alternate explanation, I would like to read it.
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You're comparing an incubator space for entrepreneurs to Arab households hiring Asian nannies? OK.
Even the Microsoft comparison is not the same because Microsoft and the temps were not aligned with equity stakes.
Living with other coders actually would be appealing to some people. To those who do not find it appealing I would suggest they don't use Blueseed's services. I am not sure why there is confusion around this point. Blueseed is proposing an incubator space, not a slave ship.
There is no way Blueseed is going to make money on this by using commodity labor. I think the only way this is successful is if their equity stakes provide an outsized return on investment. So it will only work if Blueseed attracts the best and brightest and sets them up to succeed. Why would Blueseed risk getting a reputation for exploitation?
No, I'm comparing working at a place where your rights are secured by law to a place where they aren't or it's not clear what rights you have, hence the nanny example.
"There is no way Blueseed is going to make money on this by using commodity labor."
I think this is exactly what they have in mind, otherwise why not just build/buy someplace near SF. Or if it's the ship idea that attracts the "best and the brightest" why not just park it somewhere on the shore near the city, why does it have to in international waters. The only explanation I can come up is that they will use cheap Asian and Indian labor. If you have an alternate explanation, I would like to read it.