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> Your friend was probably not thinking "fair" or "unfair", rather, what is the employment market bringing him. In a relatively free labor market (like e.g. Ca

> Your friend was probably not thinking "fair" or "unfair", rather, what is the employment market bringing him. In a relatively free labor market (like e.g. California’s) that perspective is fine with me, because you probably have to pay more for the conscientious “75%” developers you need. But Sweden has a heavily regulated and unionized labor market where differences in pay are typically motivated by the collectively agreed “fairness”. I can assure you that your argument would have been just as foreign for my acquaintance.

mgh95 2y ago
If I'm being totally honest, I am not sure it would be totally foreign. Entrepreneurship in Sweden (at least according to a quick google search) is relatively rare. Most of the entrepreneurs coming from the nordics I have interacted with have been decidedly less social contract oriented than even I am to the point where they seem almost like Gordon Gekko caricatures as though they are attempting to behave in a manner they think someone attempting to operate in a market-driven context would act. I am not sure that this argument would be totally foreign to your acquaintance, at least based upon the entrepreneurs coming from that region of the world in the USA.
- bjornsing 2y ago
  > If I'm being totally honest, I am not sure it would be totally foreign. I think I simply have more information than you do in this case. :) (Because I know the person we’re talking about, and because I’ve worked in Swedish startups for 20 years, my own and other’s.)