Re:Give away your code, but never your time
by crispinb on Sunday September 10, 2017 @08:19PM
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> This smells like a small-minded startup-bubble nonsense to me
Small-minded, no doubt (though "business"-minded rather than specifically startup).
In my national context (Australia), the vast majority of companies, small and large, operate purely in the fundamentalist capitalist mindset. There is no 'should' (conceived ethically) in their stock of concepts. It literally doesn't exist (where it occurs it's just a PR exercise, which the PR department will translate into management's native dog-eat-dog language for their comprehension in meetings).
Ideally we wouldn't work for such companies. But the stock of jobs at better places is limited, so by statistical definition 'most' of us won't be there.
Small-minded, no doubt (though "business"-minded rather than specifically startup).
In my national context (Australia), the vast majority of companies, small and large, operate purely in the fundamentalist capitalist mindset. There is no 'should' (conceived ethically) in their stock of concepts. It literally doesn't exist (where it occurs it's just a PR exercise, which the PR department will translate into management's native dog-eat-dog language for their comprehension in meetings).
Ideally we wouldn't work for such companies. But the stock of jobs at better places is limited, so by statistical definition 'most' of us won't be there.