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Okay, but when you hire a few hundred thousand people into a booming industry and promise them unprecedented compensation, you’ll probably end up with at least

Okay, but when you hire a few hundred thousand people into a booming industry and promise them unprecedented compensation, you’ll probably end up with at least a couple oranges in there. Maybe even a lot. Can we offer them some understanding and sympathy?

renewiltord 4y ago
Is it understanding or indulgence?
DiggyJohnson 4y ago
Must there be some token sympathy shown in any sort of analysis on this topic? Anyways > promise them unprecedented compensation They were promised and received uncompensated compensation. No promises of indefinite employment were ever given, and it’s a bit naive to assume boom times never end. I think it’s fair to make this point too, even if on an individual level I sympathize with pretty much anyone that loses their job.
xyzelement 4y ago
I deeply appreciate your other response to me as well as this comment / question. Obviously this is going to happen, I am not shocked or surprised and I get how it can cause anxiety to emerge. I do think there's a connection between resilience (as you observed in your other response) and entitlement. I am not sure which way causality flows but you wrote: "promise them unprecedented compensation" - I feel like there's also a realistic mindset that should go with interpreting that: I am hired to do a job and things could change (vs something like I get this comp because the universe knows I am the shit or something like that)
throwaway6734 4y ago
>Can we offer them some understanding and sympathy? If you make over 200k a year in a booming market, no.
- twelve40 4y ago
  what does that even mean? if you make over 200k a year in a busted market, then you are worthy of sympathy?
  - grioghar 4y ago
    I don’t understand this 200K thing… Are you some sort of bad person for making what the market pays you? It reeks of jealousy and brazen callousness because someone has secured compensation outside their reach or imagination. I don’t get it.
    - throwaway6734 4y ago
      200k is an arbitrary number but the general point is that someone making multiples of the median household income with high future prospects does not know the kind of struggle faced by many people and therefore does not deserve sympathy.

renewiltord 4y ago

Is it understanding or indulgence?

DiggyJohnson 4y ago

Must there be some token sympathy shown in any sort of analysis on this topic? Anyways > promise them unprecedented compensation They were promised and received uncompensated compensation. No promises of indefinite employment were ever given, and it’s a bit naive to assume boom times never end. I think it’s fair to make this point too, even if on an individual level I sympathize with pretty much anyone that loses their job.

xyzelement 4y ago

I deeply appreciate your other response to me as well as this comment / question. Obviously this is going to happen, I am not shocked or surprised and I get how it can cause anxiety to emerge. I do think there's a connection between resilience (as you observed in your other response) and entitlement. I am not sure which way causality flows but you wrote: "promise them unprecedented compensation" - I feel like there's also a realistic mindset that should go with interpreting that: I am hired to do a job and things could change (vs something like I get this comp because the universe knows I am the shit or something like that)

throwaway6734 4y ago

>Can we offer them some understanding and sympathy? If you make over 200k a year in a booming market, no.

twelve40 4y ago
what does that even mean? if you make over 200k a year in a busted market, then you are worthy of sympathy?
- grioghar 4y ago
  I don’t understand this 200K thing… Are you some sort of bad person for making what the market pays you? It reeks of jealousy and brazen callousness because someone has secured compensation outside their reach or imagination. I don’t get it.
  - throwaway6734 4y ago
    200k is an arbitrary number but the general point is that someone making multiples of the median household income with high future prospects does not know the kind of struggle faced by many people and therefore does not deserve sympathy.