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More efficient businesses are better for the world et large. It’s not an indoctrination into extreme capitalism. Things cost less and businesses produce more wh

More efficient businesses are better for the world et large. It’s not an indoctrination into extreme capitalism. Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently. And really, your perspective on Bay Area salaries is detached from reality. Yes it’s expensive, but there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. Make friends with your janitor or something and get some perspective. The rest of the country is starting to hate tech workers, and takes like this are why.

manuelabeledo 4y ago
> The rest of the country is starting to hate tech workers, and takes like this are why. The rest of the country is myopic, then. Workers should strive towards better wages, instead of celebrating layoffs. It doesn't make any sense to hate engineers who can afford what most families did in the 50s and 60s, on a single paycheck.
redeux 4y ago
> there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. What you’re describing is someone who’s living in the margins of society. Committing tax evasion just to survive while still living in poverty with multiple roommates just to get by is not what I would consider an okay life. This person will have no hope of retiring, so they’ll work until they die, which will be early because they won’t have access to quality healthcare in our expensive, privatized healthcare system. That’s certainly not a life I want to live, and I doubt you would want that either. > Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently. If you take a narrow perspective where the only thing you want to maximize is economic output, that’s true. But what we see in American society is that this comes with antisocial trade-offs. Wealth inequality has skyrocketed, health outcomes have plummeted, homelessness is a plague. I think there should be a balance. Yes, we want effective and efficient businesses, but we need to balance it with overall benefits to society and that’s not happening in America.

manuelabeledo 4y ago

> The rest of the country is starting to hate tech workers, and takes like this are why. The rest of the country is myopic, then. Workers should strive towards better wages, instead of celebrating layoffs. It doesn't make any sense to hate engineers who can afford what most families did in the 50s and 60s, on a single paycheck.

redeux 4y ago

> there are people there who survive on below minimum wage, under the table jobs. What you’re describing is someone who’s living in the margins of society. Committing tax evasion just to survive while still living in poverty with multiple roommates just to get by is not what I would consider an okay life. This person will have no hope of retiring, so they’ll work until they die, which will be early because they won’t have access to quality healthcare in our expensive, privatized healthcare system. That’s certainly not a life I want to live, and I doubt you would want that either. > Things cost less and businesses produce more when they’re run efficiently. If you take a narrow perspective where the only thing you want to maximize is economic output, that’s true. But what we see in American society is that this comes with antisocial trade-offs. Wealth inequality has skyrocketed, health outcomes have plummeted, homelessness is a plague. I think there should be a balance. Yes, we want effective and efficient businesses, but we need to balance it with overall benefits to society and that’s not happening in America.