[knucklesandwich]

> Leaders are willing to take a 100x salary compared to their line employees because they know they can hustle hard enough to live up to the expectations.

> I'm very excited to see the helmet cam video of Jeff Bezos serving a customary 8-10-12-14 hour shift at the Dallas Amazon Fulfillment Center and walk out with a smile. Can you do what you ask of others? That's leadership.

Sometimes I just have to sit and marvel at how many layers of ideology some of you folks are on.

[sctb]

Let's please try to have a thoughtful, on-topic discussion, even if you disagree with something that was said.

[khazhou]

Please explain.

[knucklesandwich]

Looking at his comment history I'm started to think I misread irony for sincerity, but its still not clear to me where that's delimited.

The 100x line sounds like the kind of deluded optimism about meritocracy you hear from a lot of people in tech, and the line about "dogfooding" is like a startup school trope that is kind of beside the point when you're talking about basic human decency towards your workers. You shouldn't have to "test" the ethicality of overworking your employees or paying yourself a huge amount of money while your worker' wages stagnate. Then again, I'm a socialist and find the entire idea of these companies to be ethically compromised because they aren't worker coops.

[otalp]

He was clearly being sarcastic, I don't know how you can think that he was serious.

[knucklesandwich]

lol thanks for popping in. It sounded like he was being derisive, but not sarcastic. Sounded like he was legitemately trying to level a critique about Bezos not dogfooding, in other words (instead the fact that he's a garbage human being). Fair enough if I'm wrong, but the same kind of shit has and will continue to be said here in complete sincerity.

[throwaway6556]

The shilling is high with this one. I think he's using the "repeat it until it becomes true" tactic.

[sctb]

Please stop commenting like this, no matter what you're responding to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html