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This is absolutely true. I know people who have worked for the government for 10+ years, and they specifically highlight the stability as the one reason they ha

This is absolutely true. I know people who have worked for the government for 10+ years, and they specifically highlight the stability as the one reason they haven't moved to the private sector where you may need to be looking for a new job every few years. Of course Musk etc. see this as a bug, not a feature, and think that every worker needs to constantly justify their employment.

Henchman21 2y ago
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- blooalien 2y ago
  Would be a total waste of time. Any answer they might give would just be the usual boat-load of blatant and obvious lies which would of course be instantly believed as "gospel truth" by their army of death-cult worshipers.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  Careful, don't make mistake of thinking that "they didn't get there by virtue" is the same as "they got there by evil." Simple economic models show that it's possible to end up with levels of inequality that match reality, even when all the players are equally lucky and have no difference in character. To twist the idiom: Hate some of the players if you want, but remember to mostly keep hating the game.
  - moshun 2y ago
    It’s fascinating to see arguments like this pop up from time to time when the wealthiest consistently move to consolidate power, control/manipulate information to enrich themselves, and now in the U.S., openly steer the government to feed bottomless greed. It’s simply not possible to reach anything close to a single billion without unbelievable exploitation of lower classes and it scales as you get richer. Saying “they got there by evil” seems completely reasonable by any moral standard not written by sociopaths.
    - ivewonyoung 2y ago
      > It’s simply not possible to reach anything close to a single billion without unbelievable exploitation of lower classes and it scales as you get richer. Whatsapp's founders made $6.8B each from the acquisition, Whatsapp only had 55 employees when acquired who all got a big payout afaik. What lower class 'got unbelievably exploited'?

Henchman21 2y ago

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blooalien 2y ago
Would be a total waste of time. Any answer they might give would just be the usual boat-load of blatant and obvious lies which would of course be instantly believed as "gospel truth" by their army of death-cult worshipers.
Terr_ 2y ago
Careful, don't make mistake of thinking that "they didn't get there by virtue" is the same as "they got there by evil." Simple economic models show that it's possible to end up with levels of inequality that match reality, even when all the players are equally lucky and have no difference in character. To twist the idiom: Hate some of the players if you want, but remember to mostly keep hating the game.
- moshun 2y ago
  It’s fascinating to see arguments like this pop up from time to time when the wealthiest consistently move to consolidate power, control/manipulate information to enrich themselves, and now in the U.S., openly steer the government to feed bottomless greed. It’s simply not possible to reach anything close to a single billion without unbelievable exploitation of lower classes and it scales as you get richer. Saying “they got there by evil” seems completely reasonable by any moral standard not written by sociopaths.
  - ivewonyoung 2y ago
    > It’s simply not possible to reach anything close to a single billion without unbelievable exploitation of lower classes and it scales as you get richer. Whatsapp's founders made $6.8B each from the acquisition, Whatsapp only had 55 employees when acquired who all got a big payout afaik. What lower class 'got unbelievably exploited'?