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wageslaving

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  1. comment
    Comment #15257587

    someone taking this job for $150,000 while working 70 hours a week is helping to depress wages across the entire industry. I don't care how much I love the work, I get paid the val…

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    Comment #15257553

    the name of the game is leveraging explosive, unsustainable growth into a high rate of return into cheap capital into a big payday for founders everything else is long-term

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    Comment #15257485

    This is my industry. I don't want to companies to start expecting a minimum of 70 hours of work for 40 hours of pay. Until they start adding "one-and-a-half compensation for overti…

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    Comment #15257272

    All I can see are the economics of it. If he was paying his engineers $600,000 / yr in compensation for all the overtime they're working, I would have no trouble with the arrangeme…

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    Comment #15257235

    Personally, I would expect at least time and a half applied to those last 30-40 hours as well. Which would be 85/40 to 100/40.

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    Comment #14744699

    The issue with yielding to investors is that investors are primarily interested in making money for themselves, rather than growing the companies they are investing in. An investor…