[jdh]

It is good work if you can get it. So is getting $10M a year to play basketball. If you have the rare talents that our 21st century economy demands from the top performers, a nursery in your office is the least of the perks you get.

If you have the less rare but still valuable talents of a yahoo programmer, you get no jet or crèche but you get six figures and free soda.

If you live in Detroit and know how to make fasteners, you get less than that in most cases today.

If you live in Somalia, well...

Fair it may not be, but I'm not crying for the poor Yahoo lead developer who has to go to the office now. It's a cold, cold world.

[jclos]

This is just an appeal to worse fallacy. Just because others have it bad doesn't mean we shouldn't improve our own situation.

[eli_gottlieb]

The whole point is that cutting other people's benefits, salaries and jobs is not a talent at all. A robot built to mimic the average private-equity or management consulting firm could easily determine that brave, stringent cuts to employee compensation desperately need to be made, since that's what they always say.