[varispeed]

> The people I worked with at Google back then weren’t necessarily there for high six figure salaries. We were there to work with other people like us.

You were a perfect specimen to get exploited by a big corporations. You had knowledge and you were willing to work for the sake of it. That's why we need laws that would prevent something like this from happening in the future. It's scary that you don't even realise that.

[ctvo]

Hilarious. You act like they were paid minimum wage to do their jobs.

They didn’t care about the money is very different from they weren’t paid good money.

I don’t disagree that corporations will exploit you given the opportunity, but software engineering is a very low priority on that list.

[varispeed]

Oh so the exploitation is acceptable as long as you are not paid a minimum wage?

I can't believe people defend these companies. Stockholm syndrome?

[blindmute]

The exploitation is completely acceptable when you are paid $300k+ and don't even feel exploited, yes. I fail to see how getting paid huge sums to do what you enjoy doing is even close to 'exploitation' for any reasonable definition.

[varispeed]

So company makes a billion out of your work and you are happy with $300k. Okay.

[blindmute]

What does that matter? You'd decline $10 if it meant someone else got $20? FAANG pays extremely generously. You're either being paid enough to work or you arent; what someone else gets should be meaningless. When you call being paid some of the highest salaries in the world exploitation, you devalue the word.

[varispeed]

If they pay generously how come they have billions in profits? Shouldn't a good chunk of that go into salaries?

It's the same as colonisers offering locals tat for their gold.