Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
by tomlock on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:01AM
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That'd be all very reasonable if we lived in a world where Apple and Google weren't colluding to keep wages down.
Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:06PM
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Which is why there are laws against that, which are actively being enforced against them.
Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
by tomlock on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:16AM
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So you both think people are being paid reasonably and that Google and Apple are colluding with one another.
Re:We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
by AnthonyMouse on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:09PM
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1) The collusion has presumably stopped now that they're caught.
2) It is possible for both to be true at the same time, because the industry is much larger than Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe. Even if they didn't compete with each other, they still have to outbid Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. -- and pay enough to prevent the workers leaving to found their own companies. It's not unreasonable to expect that the effect on wages was marginal even when it was occurring.
The amount they mutually agree upon. The employee wouldn't agree to work indefinitely for no pay.
The high compensation of successful founders is actually one of the things keeping salaries up, because any of the salaried employees has the option to quit and found their own company. The existing company has to pay well enough to compete with that -- because if what they're paying wasn't actually competitive with that alternative given the relative risk between them, why would anybody accept the salary?