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Agreed. I would think tons of engineers would kill to be on a project to build the first real self-driving car, whether they're getting paid millions or thousan
by ufmace 10y ago
Agreed. I would think tons of engineers would kill to be on a project to build the first real self-driving car, whether they're getting paid millions or thousands. If people keep quitting after making a pile of money, that sounds more like it's clear to everyone from the bottom up that there's no real commitment or ability to execute on this than that they're paying people too much. No surprise if everyone is jumping ship to other companies that have an actual plan to get people into self-driving cars.
- user5994461 10y agoPeople will always quit for a bigger pile of money. It's that simple.
- grzm 10y agoIt's really not. There are people who value other things than only money.
- user5994461 10y agoAny value can be bought with an appropriate pile of money.
- grzm 10y agoIs there truly nothing you would not do or relinquish for a large enough payment?
- user5994461 10y agoWe are talking about getting a job at a regular company. There isn't much relinquishment.
- jayjay71 10y agoI know plenty of people that refuse to work for defense contractors for large sums of money, and many others who refuse jobs in finance because they expect a miserable experience. Plenty of people consider things besides salary when taking a job.
- kobeya 10y agoNothing illegal, and nothing that would impact my own health in a permanent way. Otherwise yes, everything and everyone has a price.
- grzm 10y agoSo, there are some limits for you. Then you say "Otherwise…everyone has a price." It seems clear to me that others may not have the same limits you do, some having more, some less. And laws vary with jurisdiction. It just seems unreasonable to make a claim like "Everyone has a price" when it can be so easily qualified as to make the statement's intended absolutism meaningless. I chock this statement up alongside "A company exists solely to create profit". It has this raw, naked capitalist "that's the way the world works" jingoism that doesn't reflect that what motivates people so often entails much more than that.
- st3v3r 10y agoTrue, but the people who can pass up the big pile of money generally already have their own pile of money.