[iratewizard]

I once fired a Jr dev who lied about having done work and was generally being a salary thief. When I told him, he said he would work for free, it would never happen again, it was a misunderstanding and pleaded for his job. I told him no, so he went into the office crying to beg the founder for his job.

If someone were to ask me about hiring him, I would say in no uncertain terms that it's a mistake. I wonder, though, if he was telling his side of the story on HN, how I would have been painted as the villain.

[nopenopenopeno]

Nobody is a villain here. This is the system we all live under together. Until that changes, we are stuck with it.

That said, what is profit if not stolen value?

[iratewizard]

Profit is investment plus risk plus labor paying dividends to the entrepreneur. Go be a nutjob somewhere else.