[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.

[blindmute]

You sound bitter, greedy and envious. My happiness is related to my own situation, and has absolutely no relation to the situation of faceless CEOs, nor to a potential alternate reality where I have a better situation. You work for a wage; you're either satisfied with this amount or you're not. Being unsatisfied solely because others get more? With your mindset, literally no one can be content in the world except billionaires.

[joshuamorton]

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

It does, salaries are the single biggest post-revenue capital expenditure for FAANG.