Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top...
by tormeh on Sunday October 14, 2018 @04:59PM
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This. Also, money doesn't grow on trees if you're a normal business. Rising wages means many businesses would have to close. It wouldn't matter to employees, because by corollary they'd have better opportunities, but if you were the owner of such a business, you'd be crying too.
Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top...
by hedvig on Sunday October 14, 2018 @11:22PM
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Rising wages could also mean shareholders just accept lower profit margins. Still profits, just less.
Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top...
by sjg007 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:17PM
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The simplest mechanism to offset higher wages is stock options. If a company needs to attract talent they can use that.
Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top...
by rangibaby on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:43PM
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isn't that just how a market works?
Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top...
by thowsourcinghr on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:23PM
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Yes, but new markets have high network effects and winner-takes-all outcomes. There is a non-zero risk of having a couple of trillionaires and billionaires living isolated from a pariah sociality. That would cause a enormous instability, violence and crime.
Perhaps they are crying because a skill shortage means they would have to pay more, but instead they would rather the government encourage more people to train as software developers, increasing the supply so that salaries could be lowered.