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Who are you making that argument to? If your company is making absurd profits, you should be tap into it as an employee. Comparing your earning to people elsewh

• AdieuToLogic 11y ago
  > Who are you making that argument to? The commentary is meant for all, which is why I posted it on its own and not in response to a particular person. This is also why I said "'MCRed' and 'varelse' are only two representative examples. Other statements in this thread would serve equally well and I bear no malice toward either 'MCRed' or 'varelse.'" My intent was to give a different perspective to a person reading it. > If your company is making absurd profits, you should be tap into it as an employee. No, a company which employs a person agrees to remunerate the employee at the rate agreed upon by both parties. The amount of profit a company makes is only relevant to this in the context of how long the employee's check(s) will cash. > You're not going to convince people that they should except peanuts from a multi-billion dollar industry because "there are starving children in Africa(TM)." That's not a progressive argument. This is a straw man[1] as I said nothing about convincing people to accept "peanuts from a multi-billion dollar industry." What I did say is that people in tech (myself included) need to have perspective that not everyone makes the kind of money we make. Ignoring this leads to situations such as the rally in SoMa last month entitled "evict techies" and other similar expressions of resentment. Feel free to ignore this perspective, me, or anything anyone else says or does. It matters not to me. Based on the reception my original post has received, it looks like I need to learn to do the same. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man