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> When trying to build an argument from first principles, it's important not to make a mistake early on. In your case, you use the profit seeking as an argument
by eganist 5y ago
> When trying to build an argument from first principles, it's important not to make a mistake early on. In your case, you use the profit seeking as an argument that this automatically leads to minimizing everyone's salaries.
Where did I say this, or even imply it?
> In reality, profit gets maximized when you have a team full of high achievers and with very low turnover. That's fundamentally not compatible with your original hypothesis.
I mean, if I made that claim, I'd agree with you, but I'm currently quite lost as to how that conclusion was reached. I said and implied nothing about minimizing salaries.
- aerosmile 5y ago> if cutting out Colorado is less painful to profits than disclosing salaries So you implied that disclosing salaries cuts into profits, which I took to mean that you're seeing an inverse first-order relationship between salaries and profits.
- DarylZero 5y agoJust quoting the whole sentence shows that that's not what they meant: > "Reducing surface area for conflict" is one of many steps on the way to the goal for profit, and if cutting out Colorado is less painful to profits than disclosing salaries and opening up that conflict surface, then that's naturally what will happen.
- eganist 5y agoThank you