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tiggybear

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    Comment #15554789

    I think the expectation that I have random projects that I'm passionate about to be more disrespectful of my time. I have to compete against an unknown, I don't know what the other…

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    Comment #15554757

    Just find the pharmaceuticals these greedy assholes are dependent on to stay alive, buy up the manufacturing rights, shut down production, and get rid of some of the world's proble…

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    Comment #15543612

    Honestly, I think the socioeconomic status of your parents should be more heavily waited in "diversity" measures than skin color.

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    Comment #15537769

    >“What we’re seeing is not necessarily good for society, but it is rational behavior by these companies,” said Andrew Moore, the dean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon Univers…

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    Comment #15527615

    Thank god we don't unionize (part of our salary might go to under qualified colleagues instead of under qualified executives...the horror). My sister, a nurse, takes about a 20minu…

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    Comment #15523018

    SD pay is really far below average once COL is taken into account. Lots of biotech talent in SD leave for different industries or cities.

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    Comment #15522652

    it's about power

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    Comment #15510610

    The amount of money you are able to extract from society is much more correlated with your leverage than your output.

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    Comment #15504631

    >What is the reason to not get a salary accordingly to my seniority, expertise and work output? I've said this many times and will say it again, most people's salaries are more clo…

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    Comment #15503785

    If we had more equality, which would be a result of forcing all salary info to be public, you wouldn't have to worry as much about being robbed.

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    Comment #15503304

    well we hate poor people...and for good reason, they don't work hard enough and they bring all of us down. /s

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    Comment #15491863

    I'm highly aware of what I don't know and often very keen on learning new things. The only thing that makes me feel like an imposter is looking for a job and seeing insane requirem…

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    Comment #15486740

    I personally love cut throat environments. But only a fan when compensation if there to match.

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    Comment #15486735

    Money and an admission that everything we do is about money. Please don't make me gargle your "making the world a better place" cumshot, you are in it for money too and I'll respec…

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    Comment #15484689

    It's not the hospital, it's the doctors and other healthcare workers that enable it... see how easy it is to pass blame around? I see your point, but whose fault is it really? They…

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    Comment #15468716

    Depends how you look at it. I think rich people are more likely to look out for each other. You can often see this in the way our laws work, if the middle and lower classes are scr…

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    Comment #15468394

    And all the scientists that helped develop it are screaming out "Look what a good person I am." It's time for the paradigm to shift from ethical consumption to ethical production.

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    Comment #15467400

    So the Gestapo was worse than Hitler? I've recently been talking to my therapost about this. I'm not sure there are many jobs where you can be an "ethical producer" under capitalis…

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    Comment #15467351

    Are you sure they think they are being anonymous? Several years ago when I last posted a review on there o tried to explicitly call out my director for several things. They first w…

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    Comment #15464184

    Your paid based on your leverage not how much your output is worth. If supply of workers with your skills goes up, your leverage to negotiate goes down and so does your wages. Labo…

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    Comment #15451152

    lol. Never happen again. Medicine as for-profit and insurance companies dictating what procedures you get. Pick one.

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    Comment #15443609

    It's not sad at all. What's sad is employers using an employee's love of work to drive their wages down. If you make your money through labor, can we please please please quit talk…

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    Comment #15440590

    Don't forget about the entitlements of the business owners. Many, many, many believe they are entitled to highly skilled and highly educated workers without paying them enough to a…

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    Comment #15424898

    I think there is a lot to be said for the way a good deal of men and women are raised. I'm not even that old, but my parents treated their sons and daughters differently in some su…

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    Comment #15411998

    Then quit supporting these companies by working for them! The elite have this country over a barrel, it sucks. All anyone that isn't rich can do is to choose to die before they wil…