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What's your implication here? That non-owners are lesser and therefor should bend to the wants of the owner? That only owners have a right to the lifestyle they
by ysavir 5y ago
What's your implication here? That non-owners are lesser and therefor should bend to the wants of the owner? That only owners have a right to the lifestyle they want?
- gunfighthacksaw 5y agoThat’s one way to look at it, but the opposite from how I read it. My interpretation is not to ruin my health for a company I hold less than 0.5% stock (options) in. The amount of skin I have in this game is not enough to make me sacrifice the little pleasures that keep me sane.
- ysavir 5y agoThanks! That reading makes sense.
- Silhouette 5y agoMy interpretation is not to ruin my health for a company I hold less than 0.5% stock (options) in. I agree but don't ruin your health for a company you do hold significant stock in either. There is hard work and pulling your weight. There is having faith in your vision and giving it your best shot. And then there is being just plain stupid and making yourself ill or worse for something that is still only about money in the end.
- scarface74 5y agoEven if you own 20% of the company, statistically the chances of it being worth anything besides toilet paper is slim.
- verve_rat 5y agoI believe they are stating the opposite. If it is not your company, if you don't own a large share of it, then work your hours and switch off. Any bullshit about putting in extra work because you are in a "leadership" position is just that, bullshit to extract more value from you and transfer it to the company. Do what you are paid for, no more, no less.
- _acco 5y agoGreat attitude to ensure you never own a company.
- vangelis 5y agoI do own my own company. It's pretty easy.
- cosmojg 5y agoOwning a company is fairly trivial. Just fill out the requisite paperwork[1] and boom, you've got a company. Making it profitable is the hard part. [1] https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/ https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/
- ISL 5y agoCreating a company is easy. Staying on top of taxation/regulatory filings is more difficult.
- WarChortle 5y agoThis whole grinding is the only way to make it attitude has to stop. Do the work you get paid for. I imagine if someone started their own business, their attitude would be vastly different then working for a company on a fixed salary.
- plainnoodles 5y agoGreat attitude to make sure you understand the realities of the system and protect yourself from being exploited by it more than is already inherent in the relationship between wage labor and capital.
- scarface74 5y agoI make a lot more than most business owners as a mid level employee at BigTech without the headaches. I worked for a startup that went out of business. You know how much sleep I lost when they were struggling? When they did finally kick the bucket, I called a few people in my network, got another job and kept it moving.
- thomascgalvin 5y agoI read that as "don't kill yourself for someone else's profit."
- gumby 5y agoI think scarface74 was making the opposite claim: it’s not your company so fulfil your obligation but don’t put the company’s interest ahead of your own.
- Scarblac 5y agoThere was an implication that in leadership roles there is always something more to be done, and you have to watch out you don't do too much. But that's true for non-leadership roles just as much. So I read it as, even if you're in a leadership position, the company isn't yours, so you don't need to act as if it is.