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I find it so weird that so many software developers think they're being paid fairly in the face of Google having massive reserves of cash just lying around.
by tomlock 9y ago
I find it so weird that so many software developers think they're being paid fairly in the face of Google having massive reserves of cash just lying around.
- alphonsegaston 9y agoIn the face of all of the companies that illegally colluded to suppress developer wages sitting on massive reserves of cash... It’s the same thing as poor whites clinging to racism because they think it elevates their class position. False consciousness abounds.
- rtpg 9y agonot to mention all the anti-poaching stuff that was revealed. Why would they need to have those agreements if people were being paid a fair price?
- whataretensors 9y agoAdditionally there is lots of software written 5-10 years ago making tons of money today where the original authors get none of it.
- ryanwaggoner 9y agoThere’s probably an order of magnitude more software that was written 5-10 years ago that lost money but the software devs were still paid for.
- whataretensors 9y agoYes but the loss is linear while the gains are often exponents. I bet the integral of each would make the 'lost money' nearly insignificant.
- ryanwaggoner 9y agoWell, yeah. Otherwise there’d be little incentive to risk that money. And you wouldn’t call those losses insignificant if it was your money :)
- skybrian 9y agoWhen you realize you can retire early, it's quite easy to forgive them. Not realizing you're very fortunate would make you kind of a jerk, no?
- tomlock 9y agoSo if you can retire early, complaining about your employer makes you a jerk?
- skybrian 9y agoNo, just complaining about being underpaid when anyone looking at things objectively would say you're well off and have been treated well.
- tomlock 9y agoWhy do you feel like you can correctly discern what the objective view is?
- skybrian 9y agoWell, maybe "objective" was the wrong word. But you can try to see things from other people's point of view. This is something humans can do.
- tomlock 9y agoWell, perhaps you can see that saying people who are "fortunate" are "jerks" for complaining when something isn't fair is quite baffling, then? And perhaps you can see that using the phrase "this is something humans can do" can come across as quite condescending? And perhaps you could see that the same argument could be used against any company with cash reserves, whether they employ engineers or minimum-wage line cooks, then?
- skybrian 9y ago
- closeparen 9y ago>Google having massive reserves of cash just lying around. What does that have to do with anything?
- tomlock 9y agoClearly, employees generated that money and don't have it.