by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Productivity leaps are possible and happening. I am sorry to write that fortunes can be made while employing just a few persons.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I recently learned of a game called Among Us<\/em> from a company called InnerSloth. In November of 2020, there were 500 million people playing the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n InnerSloth has four employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a long, slow climb to this popularity, but the game became an improbable hit. The four persons had savings and lived very cheaply for a few years. There was no guarantee of success. None. It just worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given programming toolkits and cloud computing and imagination and long hours, four persons can make software that is used by half-a-billion. That is not a gain in productivity\u2014it is a leap from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note to government agencies the world over: get with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jobs? Four of them. Of course there were persons employed to create the tools and the clouds and the smartphones on which the game is played. Still, four jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new, new economies are like this. When things work, when games become hits, there is a lot of money concentrated in the hands of a few. I wish those at InnerSloth all the best. I hope they make lots of money. I hope they show others that productivity leaps are possible. I also hope they find ways to hire other persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Productivity leaps are possible and happening. I am sorry to write that fortunes can be made while employing just a few persons. I recently learned of a game called Among Us from a company called InnerSloth. In November of 2020, there were 500 million people playing the game. InnerSloth has four employees. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,121,271,411,3],"tags":[455,122,272,345,126],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-economics","category-jobs","category-software","category-technology","tag-cloud-computing","tag-economics","tag-jobs","tag-software","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}