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by cowbell 4374 days ago
>Autonomy >Mastery >Purpose

That's great. Really. Then you get invited to the company holiday party at the CEO's house. Meet his six children who are in college and traveling the world. Then you realize you and hundreds of others paid for that by living in a rental townhouse. True story.

There's no amount of motivation for me that will make up for a raw deal in pay.
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philsnow 4374 days ago
One is not likely to get to the same place in life as that CEO by job-hopping as a software engineer.
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cowbell 4374 days ago
One is not likely to get to the same place in life as that CEO. You can stop the sentence there. The rest of your statement makes you sound judgmental against job-hopping.

Capital distribution in the US is a Paretian/long tail distribution. It is statistically very unlikely for anyone, regardless of their actions, to get to the same place in life as that CEO if they are from anywhere in the bottom 90%.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1077681/thumbs/o-INCOME-DISTRIBUTI...

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philsnow 4373 days ago
Fair. I had originally wrote "One will not get to the same place...", but wanted to modify it to allow for exceptional cases. Went too far modifying it.

I agree that nearly everybody is unlikely to reach the same place in life as that CEO. If that were not the case, truly we would be living in a utopia.

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