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Re:BuzzFeed’s 19-year-old quizmaker will no longer work for ... by bastawhiz on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:24AM (#19070443)
> You’ll never get a company to pay six figures for someone they consider a free intern

And yet here they are, having lost that percentage of revenue because they had this mindset. I don't think she needed a six figure salary necessarily, but BF made exactly no attempt to do _anything_. Unlike an unpaid intern, McMahon could have kept doing this indefinitely, not just for three summer months.

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Re:BuzzFeed’s 19-year-old quizmaker will no longer work for ... by slededit on Sunday February 03, 2019 @12:00PM (#19070677)
It’s human nature, and it happens not just in business. People get up in arms whenever an open source project tries to monetize in some way other than “support”.
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Re:BuzzFeed’s 19-year-old quizmaker will no longer work for ... by derefr on Sunday February 03, 2019 @01:27PM (#19071258)
Isn’t the whole point of having things like CEOs and shareholder-elected boards of directors, to find people who are good at optimizing for the business’s profits over what their own human natures tell them to do?
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