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>I'm glad to see people recognizing the emperor has no clothes. Sacrificing yourself for a company you don't own--at all, never mind completely--won't make you

>I'm glad to see people recognizing the emperor has no clothes. Sacrificing yourself for a company you don't own--at all, never mind completely--won't make you wealthy. The company wouldn't employ you if you weren't providing them more than you cost them. It's never been easier to create enough value on your own terms to sustain yourself and not let someone else siphon out your value on their terms. I want maximum money for myself not making less money so I can make some philosophical point about other people not siphoning value from me. If a company pays me that money then I don't really care how much money they make (aside from when I'm negotiating for more money from them). If something else pays better, without additional cost such as shitty healthcare or a lot of tasks I hate doing, then that's the way to go but not due to caring if someone else also makes money or not.

smeej 4y ago
Sure. The whole point is that people are, en masse, concluding that they do not derive more value from being employed by a large corporation than they do working independently or on a smaller scale. Many people factor other values into their consideration than raw dollars, but since value is subjective, it's their prerogative to do so and yours to value only money if you wish. It's not about some self-righteous desire not to produce value for anybody else. It's about a realization that you can derive maximum value without the corporate employer.
- marcinzm 4y ago
  >The whole point is that people are, en masse, concluding that they do not derive more value from being employed by a large corporation than they do working independently or on a smaller scale. Are they? According to the BLS the percentage of people who are self-employed is lower than it was 2004-2006. It increased during the start of covid but hasn't gone up since then. Going from "we don't want to put as much effort into corporate jobs that won't reward us for it" to "we want to be self-employed" is a big stretch that numbers don't justify.

smeej 4y ago

Sure. The whole point is that people are, en masse, concluding that they do not derive more value from being employed by a large corporation than they do working independently or on a smaller scale. Many people factor other values into their consideration than raw dollars, but since value is subjective, it's their prerogative to do so and yours to value only money if you wish. It's not about some self-righteous desire not to produce value for anybody else. It's about a realization that you can derive maximum value without the corporate employer.

marcinzm 4y ago
>The whole point is that people are, en masse, concluding that they do not derive more value from being employed by a large corporation than they do working independently or on a smaller scale. Are they? According to the BLS the percentage of people who are self-employed is lower than it was 2004-2006. It increased during the start of covid but hasn't gone up since then. Going from "we don't want to put as much effort into corporate jobs that won't reward us for it" to "we want to be self-employed" is a big stretch that numbers don't justify.