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A very well-paid tool that can probably retire in a few years and never have to work again.
I feel like I'm the only person left who actually likes working and being productive with other people. I actually like programming and solving problems with other people. There's been a huge shift since COVID to embrace not working hard, but to me life isn't as interesting when you're spending 40 hours a week just kinda wasting your time, trying to get away with putting in the least amount of effort possible. Having…
"Once I showed the potential salaries to my wife, we both agreed it would be perfectly reasonable for me to ask for 30 minutes of additional “me time” per day to prepare for my next job," What the hell? If he wants 30m to himself each day he needs to clear with his wife? Don't most people get more than 30m free time each day away from their partner? Just what kind of unhealthy relationship is this dude in?
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Reading these responses is pretty upsetting. No wonder big tech is so evil. So many talented developers willing to sell their soul for more money. No thought to whether what they’re doing is causing harm to the world.
>No wonder big tech is so evil. Big businesses have no ideology, even if some people would like to think otherwise. They will do everything they can to get more money. Anything resembling some kind of ideology or politics is done because it is helping the company to get more money. Corporations aren't good or evil. They do good or evil (whatever someone might deem like so) as a side effect.
This is one of the main points of Marx's Capital.
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Less than $200k? Might as well off yourself. Just kidding. It shouldn’t need to be said, but don’t actually off yourself.
Then don’t say it?
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> I just don't think many or most tech companies have anything positive to offer the world. All these companies simply exist to make money. IMHO, making money IS providing something positive to the world. A lot of people are employed, and those people get to buy art or cookies or college for their kids or whatever. A lot of customers are served, and presumably got something they wanted.
I agree. Just be careful not to call it "trickle down" because it's a trigger word for people. For example, who cares if a billionaire buys a yacht--the building of said yacht employed dozens of craftsmen, caused thousands of supply chain orders, and will support hundreds more in maintenance over time. Also, for luxury goods you can be sure that the margins at each step are quite healthy. The real problem would be if…
It’s not actually really possible to hoard money. A dollar is meaningless until you use it to convince someone to give you something.
If you just accumulated $1T in cash and hid it under your mattress, all those people wouldn’t just do $1T less stuff. They would just do a little more for $1 than they would’ve before. That adjustment might take a little while so the fed might (did) print $1T to speed things along.
Also, when some one like Jeff or Elon is worth $300b - it doesn’t mean he has $300b. It just means that other people are willing to purchase their shares in eg Amazon such that if were to sell all of them at that price, it would add up to $300b.
But that money didn’t change hands, it’s just indicative. And of course if Jeff were to say “I’m selling all my shares right now who wants em” the price would change dramatically because nobody actually wants to buy all that. So really he would get about half of the money or something.
Hi folks! Author here - did not expect this post to blow up. Figured it might be helpful to provide some context on points of confusion: 1. Money > everything: an alternative way to look at this is that if you sort by offers, you notice there are a lot of neat companies in that list. I didn't just sort and then blindly apply. I sorted, and noticed that they all had something I was really interested in. I use Amazon w…
Could you elaborate on your conclusion. The entire post is about prep but you said next time you won't spend so much time prepping and use standard questions. What were those questions?
Also interesting there was no concern about the "evilness" of Facebook. I could never work at Facebook no matter how much they offered. You could say they are "in the business of making money" but their actions (or lack thereof) has direct impacts on entire countries usually for the worse.
More than the other platforms, Facebook has tried to moderate and reduce harmful content. They have much larger teams working on this both algorithmically and with human moderators.
If your issue is with their tracking and data privacy issues, what are the harms caused by that?
I’m asking just as much out of ignorance as I am asking to challenge you. There’s a strong narrative that Facebook and Zuckerberg are evil and it looks like dogma to me at this point. Why is TikTok not receiving the same level of scrutiny?
If someone were to give Zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt, you could argue that Facebook has brought huge positives to this world. They established social media. They created a tool that lets you up to date with friends and stay more connected with these people than was ever possible before. Perhaps any tool like that was inevitably going to come with negative effects.
It's wild to me that his way of figuring out what companies to apply for was to make a list of the top-paying ones and just pick the top 10 highest-paying. Is that a common strategy? No thought about product, industry, impact on the world, just $$$. It looks like it worked out for them though, since I guess they got like a million dollar offer, so maybe I'm the one approaching this the wrong way?
Yes. And it’s a good one. Even from the point of view of job satisfaction. The more $ you are paid, the more expensive it is for the company to waste your time. Also, it means you are working with other high-paid people, which means they are results-oriented - not there for some childish, naive crusade to change the world.
>Even from the point of view of job satisfaction. The more $ you are paid, the more expensive it is for the company to waste your time.
Having the company not waste your time is not in the top 10 most important factors for job satisfaction. And anyway, that just means you have less down time and less personal time. It's not a good thing.
>it means you are working with other high-paid people, which means they are results-oriented - not there for some childish, naive crusade to change the world.
Yes, they have optimized for income (not "results", in any meaningful sense!) over other considerations. At the extreme you will be surrounded by talented psychopaths. That is not the path to a happy life.
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Not if his wife doesn't work.
If his wife doesn't work then the 30m of me time becomes even more costly and even more important to clear. Work is often the only reprieve from a very young child. The first year of our child, my favorite thing in the world was to go to work, no matter how shitty the task. The thirty minute commute alone was orgasmic, without the sound of a screaming colicky child unrelenting during day and night alike.