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Googlers paid so well paid it would take decades for ordinary people to catch up
- cebert 2y agoTitle shortened due to length restrictions. Original title was, “The highest-earning Googlers are so well paid it would take decades for ordinary people to catch up — but some of them say they should earn more.”
- downrightmike 2y agoWell, we do know that they could have been paid more because of all the collusion between tech companies to keep wages lower.
- leoh 2y agoThe fact is — everyone should be paid more; we need a society where wealth is merely captured by but a relative few individuals. In a sense, however, the way Googlers are paid is not quite right; Google itself is a microcosm for income disparity with respect to ICs versus executives; and Google outside of itself is a microcosm for wealth capture disparity among firms in the country — it almost certainly holds an unfair monopoly at this point.
- banish-m4 2y agoThis article seems to be about inciting class warfare without considering facts. I can't afford to live where I grew up, a barely middle-class area, without making $400k/year. Something is very wrong if most Googlers can't afford that and there are a smaller subset of people with extreme wealth being created or moving in who caused absurd gentrification.
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- xyst 2y agoGoogle “high pay” is the price of having a well obedient workforce to work on ethically questionable projects such as “Project Nimbus”.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoYou make it sound like people are trading ethical standing for money. Not everyone agrees that supporting Israel is unethical.
- LtWorf 2y agoSupporting israel and supporting israel's current genocidal government aren't the same thing, like you are pretending.
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- LtWorf 2y ago> Sadly the reverse is definitely true No it isn't. From wrong premise, wrong rest of the thesis.
- neilv 2y ago> One has to wonder what Googlers, if surveyed again, really think "fair and equitable" pay is. It's written as a rabble-rousing op-ed piece. It could be they're genuinely outraged (after all, this is someone on journalist compensation, looking at Leetcode performance artist TC), or they could just be going for clicks, or they could be doing a hit piece on Google PR, or they could be helping Google to suppress compensation. IMHO, there are much better things to criticize Google over, than that they pay well. Especially some of the company behaviors that enable paying high TC. BI's full disclosure on the article says their company is suing over some company behaviors.
- adamomada 2y agoAnd some ordinary people spending decades still wouldn’t necessarily be able to do what someone at google can, today. I don’t know if it’s just me but it sounds justified, but there is supposed to be something wrong with that?
- 7e 2y agoIf Googlers successfully unionized, they would be paid a lot more fairly.
- ajma 2y agoThere's a good number of googlers that understand the system is a game. They always vote that they want more even if they believe they are being paid more than most.