Re:Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?
by panic on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @09:35AM
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That's not the only way to make money, though. A big problem with modern corporate capitalism is how abstract everything is: you're rarely getting paid directly by someone you're doing a favor for. Now it's more like, the corporation you work for holds money in investments, which gain value as the stock prices of an actively managed portfolio of other corporations changes, and a portion of that value is paid out as salaries to employees, who work to raise the stock price, so other corporations will buy more shares of your corporation, which raises the stock price of your corporation…
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