Loved the post. I've been through something similar.
Pixels Don’t Care (2013)
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#12Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation. Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies. That's not discrimination (ugh), it's a business reality.
Exactly this is why the client get's billed 20 times what Kyle earns.
It's just a lack of experience, if Kyle would man up and accept her place it would all work out.
BULLSHIT
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#13Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation. Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies. That's not discrimination (ugh), it's a business reality.
Exactly this is why the client get's billed 20 times what Kyle earns. It's just a lack of experience, if Kyle would man up and accept her place it would all work out. BULLSHIT
>>if Kyle would man up and accept her place
Kyle is a dude.
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#14And this is why I think fulltime employment is the wrong way to go for many people today. In fact the whole "we are an institution and you are a peon" mentality needs to be disrupted. More companies should hire on a project basis and share the revenues. More companies should try holacracy and abolish a top down chain of command for everything. Then people can really will be compensated on their merit, ie their contri…
To be honest, I don't like the Qbix Compensation Model. One reason to work for someone else is that they are taking the risk. Within reason, no matter what I do at work, I'll get paid the same at the end of the month. Yes, there is the risk the company could go out of business (a form of job security I guess), and yes, I would expect a fair annual review, but ultimately, I'm able to plan in the medium term for a consistent income.
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#15Just want to say, I appreciate this.
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#16That's great Kyle. I once worked for a German laser company where promotions to the highest positions were based mainly on physical height.
"German"... I wunder why!!
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#17There's something wonderful to be gained by detaching from identities and considering only the work. Hard to do, but can be very empowering.
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#18Was anyone else distracted by the lack of apostrophes?
I guess semantically they aren't necessary since there is no missing information but for some reason I found it distracting anyway.
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#19This sounds similar to a post of a blind programmer. Those are good arguments for privacy. Sometimes you got something to hide. Not a crime but because you don't want to be discriminated. Sad that it has to be this way.
To me, this is the main argument for privacy. When I hear people say "I've got nothing to hide, so I've got nothing to fear", I immediately think "Well aren't you lucky?"
Having nothing to hide is a privilege, but the weird thing about that mentality is that I think very few people actually have that privilege. How many people, for example, would not be negatively impacted if the text conversations around their last relationship breakup were made public?
We all have vulnerabilities, and privacy is about choosing who we trust to know them. So anyone who believes that they have nothing to hide is either unaware of how dangerous the world is, or hasn't properly taken stock of what could be used against them, and how. Discrimination is one of the most common ways that your vulnerabilities can used against you, but it's not the only one.
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#20Talent and experience aren't the same thing, and they both affect compensation. Talent can produce a better result than experience, but experience is almost always more consistent. There's added value in consistency for companies. That's not discrimination (ugh), it's a business reality.
Exactly this is why the client get's billed 20 times what Kyle earns. It's just a lack of experience, if Kyle would man up and accept her place it would all work out. BULLSHIT
They bill out 20x what he earns because they're not just billing for his time. They're billing for the time of the sales person who chased the lead, the time of the team who read the brief and developed the proposal, the time of the people who travelled to the client to deliver the presentation, the time of the secretary who handled the callback and the time of all the people who did all the same things the half a dozen other times where they DIDN'T get the contract.