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by mcmcmc 138 days ago
What I’d consider unlikable is implying that someone might have no choice but to work for Microsoft in order to provide for their family. It carries with it an air of privilege and condescension implying that working a lesser job or for lesser pay would be insufficient to provide for a family’s basic needs.
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trimethylpurine 138 days ago
What lesser job? People are unemployed after six months. Meanwhile MS hired other people for less to replace those that left. Nobody won here.

It's not about "lesser" jobs being actually lesser. The point is that you don't actually have a choice. Big companies that nobody likes are in control of the economy and you can't do anything except join the unemployed until you get rehired from the pool of desperate people willing to do their bidding.

(All of this with a grain of salt. Not literally everyone is in this situation, but there are certainly many who are.)

I'm just saying, maybe don't be so quick to judge.

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mcmcmc 137 days ago
I’m not sure why you’re so set on taking away free will.

> you can't do anything except join the unemployed until you get rehired from the pool of desperate people willing to do their bidding.

So there is a choice then. Does unemployment kill you in some way? Is going to a food bank a death sentence? Can you not adjust your lifestyle spending to match a lower salary if it means getting a job sooner? Is there no way to save up for periods of unemployment so you can be choosy about your next job?

Everything you do in life is a choice.

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trimethylpurine 137 days ago
It's not a choice. Making kids eat from a food bank and sleep in a shelter is morally inferior to working at Microsoft. You're saying, repeatedly, that they should make your morally inferior choice and they deserve to be judged if they don't. Only a monster could call that a choice.

Look at yourself: >Having kids is also a bullshit excuse. Choosing comfort over conscience is your prerogative but you’re just teaching your kids the same values.

Your conscience tells you that children should be forced to sleep in shelters and eat from food banks just so that you won't have to see ads when you use Microsoft Windows.

Please DON'T teach anyone your values. Your moral compass points to the trash.

I'm out bro. Cheers.

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