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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by pinewurst on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:44PM (#13432809)
In startups, man exploits man. At other employers, it's the other way around.
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by asanwal on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:54PM (#13433123)
Isn't the other way around still man exploits man?
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by pinewurst on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:03AM (#13433170)
That's the point. :)
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by e12e on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:50AM (#13433679)
To expand, it's a play on:

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." which seems to be attributed (without any sources) to John Kenneth Galbraith:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/810.html

I've also seen it as "Under capitalism, man exploits man - under communism it's the other way around." I always assumed it was a translated Russian proverb, along the lines of: "No truth in the news and no news in the truth" (Major Soviet papers were "Pravda" (the truth) and "Izvestia" (the news).

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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by conjectures on Thursday January 19, 2017 @07:04AM (#13435102)
Enjoyed the sovietology fact :)
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Re:What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining a Unicorn by superqd on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:49PM (#13432835)
True words.
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