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Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by robinson7d »

refurb wrote: post #261
Fatnino wrote: post #253

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There really needs to be an upper limit on how much wealth a person is allowed to amass. Half a billion seems fair. After that the tax bracket needs to be taxed at 100%

Why do half a billion? Let's make it $500,000. Nobody needs more than that. Right? I'm being serious. You can live a luxurious life on $500,000 per year. Oh wait, well compensated tech people make more than that, so let's pick a higher number! "A rich person is someone who makes more than me"

But they were talking about total wealth amassed, net worth, while you say “per year” as in income. Completely different metrics.

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by swozey »

satvikpendem wrote: post #208
swozey wrote: post #189

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That's incredibly impolite but I don't really care. In the future there might be reasons people don't directly name call something that should be a huge hint for you to not do it yourself to them. You aren't swooping in like a white knight answering some searing question, you're potentially throwing someone under the bus, CTO guy. You should know better. You literally added it after I posted my own response. I hope y…

This is a weird response, it's not like it's not public information, there's nothing "impolite" about it.

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Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by anurag6892 »

Sai_ wrote: post #174
anurag6892 wrote: post #163

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when dealing with 1%, what is the need for accurate measurements? they calibrate his pay to other CEOs in tech and other industries, and that is good enough.

> calibrate his pay It’s circular dependency if ever there was one.

definitely. this is often the cause of overinflated CEO pay.

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by satvikpendem »

swozey wrote: post #286
ffhhttt wrote: post #254

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But you didn’t really say anything besides it being ‘impolite’.. which is rarely the best reason to not do something

I don't know where your sense of entitlement is coming from, but first off, I don't owe you any information whatsoever. Not to mention the name of the company is absolutely irrelevant to the conversation we were having before you involved yourself literally only asking this question. I hoped, apparently wrongly, that someone could infer from me not bringing the name up myself that maybe I don't want to be associated…

Yes looking at someone's profile before replying is sure to get them on your side, keep it up!

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by bushbaba »

t8sr wrote: post #275
bushbaba wrote: post #193

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A 200 person swe org is not 200MM/year of cost at google

Anyone can sound confident on the internet, but you don't seem to have anything to back it up. In my experience, 1 million per SWE in the Bay Area is actually about right across the industry. You can look at public numbers to see that Google's revenue per __global__ employee is about 1.5 M and of that about 400 k is net income. SWEs in California make a lot more than the average global employee.

Costs also include server/DC/sales/marketing etc. you can’t include the server cost of say google maps as part of the people-headcount costs of google maps.

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by swozey »

satvikpendem wrote: post #294
swozey wrote: post #292

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That'll show 'em.

Bro, satvik. I'm happy to hear your responses and learn from you but you're literally just attacking me at this point. It's absolutely hilarious. You think you're going to take me down or something weird. I'm trying so hard to take this seriously because you think you're going to post a tweet and get me nuked from society.

I'm looking at your previous posts and trying to find things that aren't "zero to hero" type javascript messages.

There's a gem 4 months ago that is "Why would you be hiring? Writing a backend is really not that hard if you already know the front end.." " and anyway it's good to be able able to do both sides" ..

Are you trying to learn, prove yourself, or what? What's the end goal here? Most of us write code to pay rent and buy cars. What are you trying to do?

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by swozey »

satvikpendem wrote: post #295
swozey wrote: post #286

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I don't know where your sense of entitlement is coming from, but first off, I don't owe you any information whatsoever. Not to mention the name of the company is absolutely irrelevant to the conversation we were having before you involved yourself literally only asking this question. I hoped, apparently wrongly, that someone could infer from me not bringing the name up myself that maybe I don't want to be associated…

Yes looking at someone's profile before replying is sure to get them on your side, keep it up!

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Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by dakial1 »

swozey wrote: post #287
kcplate wrote: post #218

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Not unheard of to squat on domains to prevent them from being used for nefarious purposes. Not saying that is what he is doing, but unless he starts using them for racist purposes, I am not going to hold this against him.

Literally nobody asked your opinion of how he uses his domains. But thanks for your sage response. Please continue playing devils advocate in situations you're completely ignorant toward. It really benefits everyone.

Redditization of HN is impressive. Kcplate comment is totally fair and relevant, but it seems Swozey does not care about fair and relevant...

Re: CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

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Post by satvikpendem »

mathverse wrote: post #267
firecall wrote: post #255

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No, we need to fix the mechanisms that have allowed so much wealth to accrued by individuals. Companies need to be taxed correctly. They need to give back to the societies that built the social structures that allowed them to be created and thrive.

I would somehow tax inactive capital. Capital that is not directly invested in a company or pays for employees. Everything laying around or on the stock market should be heavily taxed.

The stock market is for directly investing in companies...
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