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by danaris 1202 days ago
If you agreed to pay one person enough to do nothing that you have to lay off thousands of other people, I don't care if you signed a contract to do it—it's still worthy of condemnation.

All it changes is the timing of when the action worthy of condemnation occurred.

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$10M/yr = 50x $200K/yr

Not paying him and getting sued for it would save about 50 jobs temporarily. Not "thousands"...

Changes the semantics, but not the underlying ethics.