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by 6d0debc071 3981 days ago
> Quit. But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave.

Well, that may or may not be true. But even if it is, so what? It's not your company.

You have given them work, they are supposed to have given you money. And you have both agreed that that is a fair compensation for your work, at least for as long as you are doing that work for that compensation. And that settles accounts; you're back to a position where you don't owe them any more work and they don't owe you any more money. There's no obligation in that for you to continue to work for them. You don't owe them any loyalty – that's not the sort of thing you can buy. (Phrased another way 'money is a bad retention tool.')

There are things where it makes sense to have a degree of personal loyalty to some of the people you work with in a company (though having a loyalty to the company as a whole is of course nonsense.) There are people who we might choose to continue working for, despite the fact that we might make more money elsewhere, because those people are good at what they do, take care of us, and we generally enjoy working with them. But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.