Difficulty convincing people

lietruth · 2017-01-09T20:21:06+00:00

This is not a red pill issue.

harkrank · 2017-01-10T06:56:34+00:00

I'm a business owner, so I'll give you the red pill you need. You seem like a good guy and I've been through what you've been through. Here's the truth:

Very, very few people are even slightly rational when it comes to business and work.

Your arrangement is completely fair, 50/50 profit split. Designing a video game is a traditional hobby project, so there should be people interested in doing it without regards of the money just to improve their skills or just out of being creative. That's how a lot of bands are formed. But those times are ending. The wast majority of people are followers without any desire at all to be productive outside of corporate employment. I blame schools for instilling this mindset of striving for success within a structure made by an authority instead of trying to strike it out on your own, but it is how things are now.

People are feminized. When you're approaching them with humility and a fair offer, as you have, they will think it is weakness and think "fuck this loser". Now you're stumbling upon the reason why employer/employee relationships usually seem to have that unnecessary edge to them. Because for a lot of people the better you treat them the worse they behave and the more they demand. Of course what every employer wishes for is employees who are the opposite and when you find those you're truly lucky.

Some years ago I found myself in the situation of being in desperate need of more employees and calling 50+ people offering good pay and complete flexibility of working hours. Nobody was interested. Yet some years later I put out classifieds for some positions, asking for CVs and making demands of experience and I was flooded with responses. Just adding that layer of abstraction enticed a completely different response. Game doesn't only apply to sex, it applies to everything in life.

So what are your options?

You can learn to do it yourself. I've had to learn to do tons of things myself as a business owner because of the failed state of the western economy which means that time is better spent learning to do things by yourself rather than paying someone else an inflated price for a subpar product.

Or you can market your project in a different way, making it seem this is a big business with lots of hype and having the attitude that you're doing them a favor for letting them work for you for free. Scummy way to go about your business, but that's the age we're living in. Everything is sales and game.

And good luck!

Title	Difficulty convincing people
Author	R3v4mp3d
Upvotes	2
Comments	13
Date	January 9, 2017 7:54 PM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/askTRP
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