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You can whine all you like, at least until Zuckerberg buys HN and starts to ban wrongthinkers. It's just that using "struggle of the downtrodden workers under the boot of the capital" doesn't sound as impressive when the downtrodden makes 10x more in a year than his average compatriot. I don't want to diminish anybody feelings, but I feel there should be a sense of proportion of things being not exactly hellscape yet for tech workers.

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There's a miscommunication here. I'm not complaining about people being "over"-paid (though they'd save way more by cutting executive pay). I'm complaining about the signs that our overlords who have been briefly forced to treat people decently are eagerly awaiting any chance to reduce that and get back to treating everyone like shit. And I'm cynical that I absolutely find this stuff to be potential early signs of the end of the blip.

Side note, but it also strikes me as a sign of how normalized corporate treatment of people is that people is when we're on a thread about an article that talks about an exec making over 5 times a googlers salary per day and instead of people going "what the fuck? If that's true, 500k should be the norm for more people!", I get pushback on my comment about how this is a bad omen for the rest of us and called whiny.

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