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  • This one is very obvious. It’s not specific to the tech world. Companies know that changing jobs is stressful, that there’s value in remaining where you are, and quite obviously many people are willing to accept smaller raises so that they don’t have to go out and apply. For most jobs in the world, you can’t work remotely, and renting a different place or selling and buying property is time consuming, stressful, and expensive. In other words, this is common sense economic reasoning.

    One side point is that if you can work mostly or entirely from home, that gets rid of some of the pressure to stay where you are, which in turn should create more mobility, which in turn should create more pay raises for employees who stay. But work from home is relatively the recent phenomenon, so old company pay scales are unlikely to properly account for it.

    Another point, that the author completely overlooks, is that some people don’t contribute as much as the author thinks they contribute. If they know that, of course they don’t want to move to a place that does contribution-based pay. They could get hired on somewhere during a probational period of some kind, and their new bosses might think they’re not good enough, and now they are out two jobs. Of course the turnover on their second job makes their resume look weaker, so they’ll have more trouble finding a decent third job.

    None of what I wrote is new information. It seems like the author of the article did that standard thing in tech circles. They decided to reinvent the wheel and write about it, and try to make it exciting when it’s not. Good for them for examining the problem, but they should be slightly embarrassed for publishing before doing basic research to see if someone had already addressed the question at hand.


  • Template writers and clipart generators are peachy. Saves us time. People who develop those, they have mostly positive intentions. There’s nothing wrong with sustainable research and progress in software of this sort.

    You should be focusing on the salespeople, the investors (speculators), the marketers, the corporate buyers. These people have mostly bad intentions.





  • It’s interesting how people try to redefine the word joke. If there’s nothing funny about it, it’s not a joke. So maybe they mean that they were trolling just for fun, which is not the same thing.

    The second point is that if they say something horrible and then you call them an asshole and then they complain that you’ve gotten too sensitive, which is a very common chain of events, it actually shows that they’ve gotten too sensitive. If you’re not supposed to care about what they said, why should they care about what you said? … But of course actually they don’t care about what you said, and they’re just grandstanding. But even if we accept their internal logic just for the sake of argument, it still makes them giant assholes.







  • orcrist@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneat least rule
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    Telling me stories isn’t going to impress me with the party that’s done very little in the last 20 years to make life better for the average American, even when they had Congress and the White House.

    I want to know what’s going to be different this time. I want to know that the Democrats are actually going to pass legislation to make things better in the medium run and in the long run. And we’ve seen some good ideas. The idea to reform the Supreme Court, that’s a good one. I want to see more ideas like that, and I want to see centrist Democrats being pressured into publicly endorsing them.

    I want Democrats to refuse to take money from crypto billionaires. I want Democrats to tell all of us how they’re going to stand up against monopolies. I want Democrats to risk angering the large corporations that dominate US politics, because I know that’s the only way that life will get better for the average American.

    Of course you can’t always get what you want. So if the Democrats want to tell stories better, I guess that’s better than nothing, but don’t expect me to respect them.