The ladder
What the money buys, in order.
One engineer, no company, no committee. The register pays for these from the bottom up, and the bar moves in public. When a rung gets paid off, the proof that tipped it over gets its own entry in the chronicles, name included.
- Proven so far
- $10
- The whole ladder
- $178,500
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1.
The workstation $10 of $4,500
The machine with the ridiculous GPU. It trains the models, renders your certificates and never gets turned off.
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2.
A year of full-time building $0 of $36K
Twelve months of one engineer who does nothing else. Rent, bills, coffee, the mortgage payments. Yes, the mortgage. It is on the list. It is not the list.
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3.
The car $0 of $48K
Yes, that one. The register gets the photo, and the patron who tips it over gets named in the caption.
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4.
The house, outright $0 of $90K
The rest of the mortgage in one line of a ledger. An engineer with a roof builds better. An engineer with a paid roof builds whatever he wants. Also the day the initials get a full name.
After the last rung, every proof goes to the missions: real software, shipped in public, with a build log.