The acquisition seems to be old, Y2019.
I am not sure if you wrote this blog just now or had written earlier and published now. How have your perspective changed about the decision to get acquired since 2019, if it did?
What I learned getting acquired by Google
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Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, I don't think you have sufficient perspective on what middle class life is like in France to make this comment with any justification. French taxation is incredibly complex and heavy on the middle class. It is financially unfeasible for most middle class households to pass down their homes to their children due to the estate tax kicking on assets over 100,000 eur. There are many unhoused people spread acro…
It is financially unfeasible for most middle class households to pass down their homes to their children due to the estate tax kicking on assets over 100,000 eur. That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children? To be clear, passing down an entire home tax free in a highly developed nation is a huge financial adva…
> That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children?
Are you for real? Because it is not my or my children's fault other children don't have anything to inherit. This is how life works. You do whatever you can to get ahead of other through any means necessary to have a better future. You should not exepect the same outcome for people from different walks of life.
And just because not everyone can afford a house it is not my problem either.
> In my eyes, this is the path to Old World aristocracy. The purpose of inheritance taxes is to reduce this advantage.
So the world would be better if everyone was poor, right? The purpose of inheritance taxes is for the government to steal from your hard earned assets. Just because you're jealous of someone who inherits a big house or whatever will not make the world a better place.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#543Earlier quoted context omitted.
>it's a caste system One required by federal policy. Companies are legally bound, or at least incentivized to not risk lawsuits, to degrading temporary staff so as to distinguish between regular employees and contractors.
> One required by federal policy. Federal policy just says that if you don't distinguish between regular employees and contractors, the contractors are considered regular employees. It doesn't say you are not allowed to hire those people as regular employees and treat them like regular employees.
> It doesn't say you are not allowed to hire those people as regular employees and treat them like regular employees.
What you're saying defeats the purpose and idea of having contractors.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is because it is extremely rude, like meanest of meanest, to not share food with each other. Like, of all mean but not illegal things you can do to contractors, not sharing food is probably what people consider the worst. Small every day things are way more provocative than abstract things like retirement funds or whatever. Been there. Done that. The FTEs got strawberries. I didn't. I don't think I have been th…
I don't get it. Why would you be pissed if those were the rules of the company you were contracting to? As a contractor you get paid more than the regular employees because you take on a greater risk (such as being fired at any moment without any explanation) and you do whatever you're told. If you don't like it you can always look for another client. My point being you can't have your cake and eat it too. Does it su…
> Why would you be pissed if those were the rules of the company you were contracting to?
Not being on the Google health or retirement plan is one thing. That's something you can do maths to, see if your alternative arrangements make sense.
But witholding food is something that feels anti-human. Like it hits some primal parts of me. Eating a meal with people you work alongside is, depending on your interpretation, between a few hundred thousand and a few hundred million years old as a social act.
Denying that is... something else.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
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thank you for mentioning this. i was a red badge. it was fucking demeaning. i have a lot of stories, but my favorite was when everyone on my floor got an earthquake safety kit except me. literally google didn't care if i lived or died. the expectation was that if i sucked up enough ("demonstrated my value") they MIGHT make me a real boy, like some bizarre Velveteen Rabbit fetish game. i loved watching how Google woul…
Not at Google but I was a contractor at a hospital. All the employees got active shooter training. I guess the contractors were meant to be fodder.
Well, employees are a liability for the hospital. You were not, hence no need for you to get training. It is logical. Ethical, up for debate.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're typically Americans who think all 50+ European countries have very similar legal systems and cultures.
Louisiana doesn't even use common law.
Eh, Scotland is in a similar position with a common-civil hybrid. The Channel Islands use a local customary Normon-derived legal system. And that's only in one European country!
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is financially unfeasible for most middle class households to pass down their homes to their children due to the estate tax kicking on assets over 100,000 eur. That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children? To be clear, passing down an entire home tax free in a highly developed nation is a huge financial adva…
> That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children? Are you for real? Because it is not my or my children's fault other children don't have anything to inherit. This is how life works. You do whatever you can to get ahead of other through any means necessary to have a better future. You should not exepect the same…
Well the taxes pay to enforce property rights. It sort of becomes your problem if others don’t have a place to live and you won’t pay men with guns to keep them from taking your place to live.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the money we pump into it, it's not much of an achievement. We didn't even launch it.
And SpaceX didn't build it... Strong statement so of calling Euclid not much of an achievement after it being up there for a couple of days only. I am honetely to lazy to look up a list of ESA space missions for you, Wikipedia might have a decent overview so.
Again my complaint is not the end result isn't "impressive" in isolation it's that it's not impressive for the amount of time and money dumped into it compared to any other space program on earth. I said "for the money we pump into it".
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#549Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is because it is extremely rude, like meanest of meanest, to not share food with each other. Like, of all mean but not illegal things you can do to contractors, not sharing food is probably what people consider the worst. Small every day things are way more provocative than abstract things like retirement funds or whatever. Been there. Done that. The FTEs got strawberries. I didn't. I don't think I have been th…
I don't get it. Why would you be pissed if those were the rules of the company you were contracting to? As a contractor you get paid more than the regular employees because you take on a greater risk (such as being fired at any moment without any explanation) and you do whatever you're told. If you don't like it you can always look for another client. My point being you can't have your cake and eat it too. Does it su…
Maybe they are people and not a robot, emotionally the context of a human is day-to-day not the lines of a contract.
Also most of the time these people are not receiving more money, more like the same or less.
Re: What I learned getting acquired by Google
#550Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That seems OK to me. Why should children who are lucky to be born into a stable middle class family have a large financial advantage over other children? Are you for real? Because it is not my or my children's fault other children don't have anything to inherit. This is how life works. You do whatever you can to get ahead of other through any means necessary to have a better future. You should not exepect the same…
Well the taxes pay to enforce property rights. It sort of becomes your problem if others don’t have a place to live and you won’t pay men with guns to keep them from taking your place to live.
I don't think we are on the brink of societal collapse :)
And it is just like now, I use a gun to shoot people that try to enter my house. What you're saying is that I should have people with guns in the house for the times that I'm not at home.
How is this different than today when your house gets robbed during the day?