Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?

Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by dvt on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:18PM (#14529004)

> You wanna join the evil 1% in the valley? That's relatively easy. Learn how to code and ship working systems, especially big data and machine learning systems. That ability alone is worth high six-figures income to Google and Facebook (cue people insisting that's not the case because they don't make that kind of money).

Lol what the fuck are you smoking? Making 7 figures is de facto NOT relatively easy and NOT standard for any engineer (in the Valley or otherwise; even with RSUs). I mean, even the article says it's very rare.

> Even then, I consider the election of Donald Trump and the existence of his base a far greater threat to freedom than the worst of Google, Amazon, and Facebook combined.

Donald Trump is gone in four years, GOOG, AMZN, FB will be around for a very (very) long time. The comparison is lacking at best.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by cobbzilla on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:42PM (#14529113)

you don't need 7 figures to join the 1%. last i heard it was around $450k/year; there are a lot of people at Apple/FB/Google/etc that make that much or more, but still far less than $1M

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by ThePawnBreak on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:12PM (#14529219)

He said 1% in the Valley, not in the US. Also, I think it's better to compare total wealth rather than income (which can easily drop dramatically).

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