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I feel like people on HN who have comfortable passive incomes from stocks or other sources forget that people need a paycheck to sustain their lifestyles.
by tetris11 4mo ago
I feel like people on HN who have comfortable passive incomes from stocks or other sources forget that people need a paycheck to sustain their lifestyles.
- lukan 4mo agoIt seems the poster was aware of that "That's what I would've been thinking in the shower 2 days after the conversation, anyway."
- JsonDemWitOster 4mo agoBut if $DAYJOB actually keeps you from your dying kid's bedside, is it still there to "sustain" it? Or is it just leeching into your life?
- ulfw 4mo agoWhy do you write '$DAYJOB'?
- nemomarx 4mo agoGeneral nerd slang for "fill in the name of it here" based on coding syntax so like imagine your day jobs employers name in that part
- TeMPOraL 4mo agoIf having a job is still marginally better than not having it, it's a sign of an efficient labor market. (Market inefficiencies is where everything that is nice, beautiful, good, human, lives.)
- jojobas 4mo agoYou can always find another job, even if it's worse than your current one. A prick who thinks my family is less important than a transportation project, and has the audacity to assert that to me, can do the project himself or in the company of spineless worms.
- dotancohen 4mo agoI'd take a mid-2000's Boeing engineer's salary for an asshole boss. Hell, I've been told worse here on HN.
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- pjmlp 4mo agoMany of us live in countries with work legislation that disallowes this kind of management.
- ToucanLoucan 4mo agoI'm told that's communism
- pjmlp 4mo agoYeah,na common message among late stage capitalists.
- nehal3m 4mo agoI very much depend on my pay check to sustain my life in the long run, although worker protections and a small (!) nest egg make it so I wouldn’t have to put up with this kind of abuse. I see employment as an agreement for a set number of hours of my expertise in exchange for a fee. End of transaction. The real world is slightly less black and white of course, but that’s the gist of it.