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It's a cliche at this point - "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I would say compared t
by hotpotamus 4y ago
It's a cliche at this point - "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." I would say compared to Bezos (or any oligarch with penis rocket money) we're all peers in the sense that we work for a living, but I doubt most Amazon devs would say that about the soldiers working the warehouses or driving the trucks.
- scarface74 4y agoDoes your company employ anyone outside of tech? Do they outsource manufacturing to a developing nation?
- hotpotamus 4y agoNo and No. We don't employ anyone outside the US including support.
- scarface74 4y agoDo you know how any large company like Amazon operates? This isn’t meant to be a demeaning comment. I spent 24 years bumping around at mostly small companies you’ve never heard of before 2020.
- hotpotamus 4y ago> Do you know how any large company like Amazon operates? Does anyone really know how a large company like Amazon operates? I've certainly worked for multinational companies before. One of our C levels even palled around with Jeffery Epstein.
- scarface74 4y agoAnd nowhere in that company’s supply chain are that not workers who aren’t treated like the “elite” software developers? How many people toil away in factories “working” for Apple creating iPhones or “working” for Google creating their servers and phones. Or is it morally better since they are outsourced?
- hotpotamus 4y agoI'm not sure what you're going for here. I'm sure that capitalism makes us all complicit somehow or another and of course I can't trace the supply chain for everything (or probably any) I use. But the small places I've worked have been much more human and egalitarian than the multinationals without exception.
- scarface74 4y agoThat’s true. Before coming to AWS I worked as a senior dev/de facto “cloud architect” (in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king) for a 60 person company where we had 5 weeks vacation and free family healthcare. I could basically get anything I wanted pushed through and the CTO trusted my judgement implicitly. When they got bought out for 10x revenue (I had already left), the founders gave each of the employees an extra bonus and they reached out to a former employee who had been there for years and gave him a bonus on top of the options he exercised - they had no legal obligation to do so. But, they didn’t and couldn’t give me the 50% bump in compensation I make now and working remotely (permanently).
- hotpotamus 4y agoIndeed, I've found that money allows people to justify much.