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> Based on what I've heard anecdotally from e.g. freelancers providing services to large corporations, that ship has unfortunately long sailed. You're missing
by lapcat 3y ago
> Based on what I've heard anecdotally from e.g. freelancers providing services to large corporations, that ship has unfortunately long sailed.
You're missing the point, just like the other commenter, as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280868
A bureaucratic company failing to pay a freelancer on time is not the same thing as this deliberate, top-down (i.e, Musk-designed) strategy of Twitter refusing to pay its bills.
Google Cloud has a lot of big customers. How many of them do you think are doing this?
- Ekaros 3y agoI would guess that lot of slowness in payments with many companies is deliberate and it comes from quite high levels. Keeping cash in your own hands will generate marginal amount of return. Now doing this with existential services you buy from providers that might actually take action and losing you isn't big thing is however not something anyone does.