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Would you take a pay cut to save someone else's from being laid off in your company? It's a serious question, just curious, there is no right answer - I wouldn'

by ejb999 3y ago

Would you take a pay cut to save someone else's from being laid off in your company? It's a serious question, just curious, there is no right answer - I wouldn't, nor would I accept even a $1 cut in my pay - the day that happens is the day I give my notice. Not an option for everyone I know.

nineplay 3y ago
Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off? I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deeply awful it would be for a breadwinner with a home and kids. Even for people I work with that I don't particularly like, I wouldn't want to put them in that situation. Like a lot of Americans I've been experiencing a lot of envy for the more socialist European companies where maybe people have less to gain, but they also have less to lose. All I really want is a comfortable life for me and my family. I'd like the same for everyone else.
- ChatGTP 3y ago
  As someone who has lived in Europe and since returned. I can tell you people there are way way more happy and I’m also more frequently seeing the “saltiness” towards Europeans on here because of it. I remember working in Europe, and going to the park during a week day and seeing all these parents, both Mum and Dad playing with their children in the sun with this kind of carelessness about them. I vividly remember being shocked at that scene. I’d never seen it before. People would just go home from work and not “grind” away at their jobs. I think given a few more years of “automation” and most Americans might think differently about free market capitalism. Maybe at that stage it’ll be too late to change to something better? Europe is a kind or project too, it’s a work in progress. I think their systems will just improve over time.
the_overseer 3y ago
So you wouldn't take a $1 pay cut per year so that a person might have enough to take care of his family? Is this who you really are? $1 that could save someone from starving and you wouldn't give it? It says a lot about you to make such a statement, I am not sure you realise this.
- ejb999 3y ago
  you really think a tech worker with any skills at all is going to starve? If their skills are so bad they can't get another job, then they don't deserve to be protected in the job they are currently in - However, would I give someone a $1? sure and probably a lot more - but that is different than accepting a pay-cut for any reason from my employer who is booking billions of dollars a year in profits while letting people go.

by ejb999 3y ago

nineplay 3y ago

Do I get to choose who does and doesn't get laid off? I'm being facetious but I honestly don't know. I've become a softy in my old age. I can imagine how deeply awful it would be for a breadwinner with a home and kids. Even for people I work with that I don't particularly like, I wouldn't want to put them in that situation. Like a lot of Americans I've been experiencing a lot of envy for the more socialist European companies where maybe people have less to gain, but they also have less to lose. All I really want is a comfortable life for me and my family. I'd like the same for everyone else.

ChatGTP 3y ago
As someone who has lived in Europe and since returned. I can tell you people there are way way more happy and I’m also more frequently seeing the “saltiness” towards Europeans on here because of it. I remember working in Europe, and going to the park during a week day and seeing all these parents, both Mum and Dad playing with their children in the sun with this kind of carelessness about them. I vividly remember being shocked at that scene. I’d never seen it before. People would just go home from work and not “grind” away at their jobs. I think given a few more years of “automation” and most Americans might think differently about free market capitalism. Maybe at that stage it’ll be too late to change to something better? Europe is a kind or project too, it’s a work in progress. I think their systems will just improve over time.

the_overseer 3y ago

So you wouldn't take a $1 pay cut per year so that a person might have enough to take care of his family? Is this who you really are? $1 that could save someone from starving and you wouldn't give it? It says a lot about you to make such a statement, I am not sure you realise this.

ejb999 3y ago
you really think a tech worker with any skills at all is going to starve? If their skills are so bad they can't get another job, then they don't deserve to be protected in the job they are currently in - However, would I give someone a $1? sure and probably a lot more - but that is different than accepting a pay-cut for any reason from my employer who is booking billions of dollars a year in profits while letting people go.