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This “division of labour” is ironic, as Mozilla fired many of its staff including a lot of its MDN staff.
by lloydatkinson 5y ago
This “division of labour” is ironic, as Mozilla fired many of its staff including a lot of its MDN staff.
- vanderZwan 5y agoYeah, I'm kind of wondering if I should read "externalizing costs" between the lines or not.
- toyg 5y agoIt's not ironic - gotta make space in the budget for exec salaries by cutting a bunch of low-paid folks. Capitalism at work, baby!
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThey had two high paid execs and cut that in half before cutting any "low-paid" folks.
- toyg 5y agoAfter strenuously opposing it for three years, in which Baker alone made something like $5-6m, and only because it had become a talking point in media. They still make a cool half million on average - I understand that's small potatoes in SV, but in the great scheme of things it's still a lot.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoBeard stepped down roughly a year before the "Exec salaries ballooned while user rate dropped" Cal Peterson post became a talking point. And in the grand scheme of things, executive salary was never more than a few percent of annual spending.