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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by sonnyblarney on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:00PM (#18892032)
"I feel sorry for people who sell their creative energy for the sake of money and popularity."

This is called 'a job'.

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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by drb91 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @01:59PM (#18892688)
This is called “being exploited for an unfair share of profits”.
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by closeparen on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:52PM (#18893477)
Software engineers have access to a large space of choices on share of profits vs. risk.
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by drb91 on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @09:47AM (#18911422)
“Risk”
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by AlexB138 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:07PM (#18893001)
What about a job is unfair, exactly?
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by blfr on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:18PM (#18893059)
I don't necessarily agree but 'drb91 clearly wrote that the share of profits is unfair.
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by geggam on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:31PM (#18893126)
Since when did life become fair ?
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by asveikau on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:25PM (#18893368)
Karl Marx called this "surplus value".
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by closeparen on Saturday January 12, 2019 @04:44PM (#18893446)
The means of production in our industry range from dirt cheap to free and open source.
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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by jfdkssk83 on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:04PM (#18892717)
> This is called “being exploited for an unfair share of profits

So you're fine with nursing assistants getting paid like shit?

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Re:Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees by dang on Sunday January 13, 2019 @03:55AM (#18895823)
Even in as lousy a subthread as this one, this comment stands out as breaking the site guidelines. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here?
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