[bombolo]

> Why would the CEO be my enemy?

I studied some basic economics.

The goal for a player seems to be to obtain the maximum, giving the least.

For his very role, the CEO will pay you the least amount he can get away with. Ok he won't think of a few dollars or cents, because it's not worth to think about it… but when you negotiate your salary he would give you a negative raise if he could get away with it. And during normal work days he wants you to work as much as possible.

Of course a good CEO understands that working 20h today means that you won't do a good job tomorrow… but the long term goal is that.

[MoreSEMI]

Would you not try to do something similar in working as minimally as possible for the pay? Does that make someone a bad person? Everyone tries to min-max life. Doesn’t make them enemies or bad people, it just makes them…people.

[bombolo]

Yes of course I'm doing the same. I'm not saying CEO should be put to death… I'm saying that people have to understand their natural allies are people in their same situation.

[berniedurfee]

I’ve always thought of minimum wage as a company declaring they will pay as low a wage possible without being thrown in jail… not a penny more. That should an embarrassing position to take… and yet.