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Your wife's brain cancer wasn't generating revenue for the company. Capitalism is fueled by growth, not doing the morally right thing.

peterpost2 5y ago
What's the point you are trying to make?
- mushbino 5y ago
  If you can't show the impact to the bottom line, why should the company care?
thelittleone 5y ago
Sustained growth depends on access to talent and treating talent with apathy will reduce their talent market. It would be besutifully poetic for some top HN talent to turn down an Amazon offer on grounds of this case. Shout-out to EMC corp, when I was assigned overseas, they paid the bill for ICU costs of my son's birth while on overseas assignment when the insurance company would not. Not all companies are douche bags. P.s. I no longer work at EMC nor do I recruit for them LOL.
- Jansen333 5y ago
  If the work is unique, they can pay premium over market rate consultant and freelancer professional. Their staff policy is the same as commodity like barrel of oil ... totally fungible and replaceable. That is their IP. They themselves don't have significant IP compare to the rest of tech companies.
- lordnacho 5y ago
  I bet you could do a poll asking HN if they'd work for Amazon and most people would have reservations.
  - kcplate 5y ago
    Yet they still managed to find 1.6M people globally to work for them.
porbelm 5y ago
Too bad the sociopathic ultra-capitalists do not realise that a happy, well-rested worker with a good work/life balance is a productive worker. I bet Amazon would be profitable enough with a 5-day, 6-hour work week and much better benefits and vacation time, but since that makes them not as profitable as they can be by using slave labor... Because they're sociopaths or worse.
- ivanmontillam 5y ago
  When companies become slave of external investments the incentives and power dynamics of the company change. That's why now I'm a strong promoter of bootstrapping, unless you have envisioned for yourself an exit too. Then, and only then, yes, bring external investment as incentives are aligned with your peers. Maybe seed fund yourself and then bring Series A externally.
nikau 5y ago
Just not tumours growth

peterpost2 5y ago

What's the point you are trying to make?

mushbino 5y ago
If you can't show the impact to the bottom line, why should the company care?

thelittleone 5y ago

Sustained growth depends on access to talent and treating talent with apathy will reduce their talent market. It would be besutifully poetic for some top HN talent to turn down an Amazon offer on grounds of this case. Shout-out to EMC corp, when I was assigned overseas, they paid the bill for ICU costs of my son's birth while on overseas assignment when the insurance company would not. Not all companies are douche bags. P.s. I no longer work at EMC nor do I recruit for them LOL.

Jansen333 5y ago
If the work is unique, they can pay premium over market rate consultant and freelancer professional. Their staff policy is the same as commodity like barrel of oil ... totally fungible and replaceable. That is their IP. They themselves don't have significant IP compare to the rest of tech companies.
lordnacho 5y ago
I bet you could do a poll asking HN if they'd work for Amazon and most people would have reservations.
- kcplate 5y ago
  Yet they still managed to find 1.6M people globally to work for them.

porbelm 5y ago

Too bad the sociopathic ultra-capitalists do not realise that a happy, well-rested worker with a good work/life balance is a productive worker. I bet Amazon would be profitable enough with a 5-day, 6-hour work week and much better benefits and vacation time, but since that makes them not as profitable as they can be by using slave labor... Because they're sociopaths or worse.

ivanmontillam 5y ago
When companies become slave of external investments the incentives and power dynamics of the company change. That's why now I'm a strong promoter of bootstrapping, unless you have envisioned for yourself an exit too. Then, and only then, yes, bring external investment as incentives are aligned with your peers. Maybe seed fund yourself and then bring Series A externally.

nikau 5y ago

Just not tumours growth