{"id":268107,"date":"2010-02-02T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-1844071080616213624"},"modified":"2010-02-02T22:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T03:42:51","slug":"how-common-is-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/268107","title":{"rendered":"How common is Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job was remarkably unlucky.<\/p>\n<p>He was either the victim of serial disasters through random chance, or a pawn in an obscure debate between Lucifer and Yahweh.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunate either way.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like me with tech ware. Which is why tomorrow I&#8217;ll try to figure out why my backup drive has no data on it. (I&#8217;m bringing my MacBook into the office. It&#8217;s relatively trustworthy.)<\/p>\n<p>My tech misfortunes are nuisance rather than tragedy, but they make me wonder how many modern Jobs are out there.<\/p>\n<p>Let us assume that, in middle age, one encounters a reasonable tragedy, such as the loss of a loved one or a major disability about once a year. Less often in a wealthy nation like ours, more often in, say, Haiti. Average, say, 1 week in 50 if we distribute over enough people.<\/p>\n<p>So how many people on earth can we expect to have an <i>uncorrelated<\/i> tragedy (discounts plagues, etc) once a week for the <i>next<\/i> 5 weeks in a row?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is (1\/50**5) * 8,000,000,000 or 25 people. Over the course of a year the number of people experiencing this is much higher of course (alas, my combinatorial knowledge is too old to calculate this without some study).<\/p>\n<p>There must be a few people, over the course of a lifetime, who will encounter up to 10 uncorrelated tragedies over a 10 week interval. Beyond Job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-1844071080616213624?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job was remarkably unlucky. He was either the victim of serial disasters through random chance, or a pawn in an obscure debate between Lucifer and Yahweh. Unfortunate either way. Kind of like me with tech ware. Which is why tomorrow I&#8217;ll try to figure out why my backup drive has no data on it. (I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}