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Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by pb7 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#20945021)
Okay, let's agree to disagree on the terminology. What exact solution do you propose? Do people stop accepting this money? Do they thank their cashiers extra generously because they make 10x more? What is the actionable step here that would make it all okay in your eyes?
Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by tidepod12 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:46PM (#20945069)
>Okay, let's agree to disagree on the terminology.

No, let's not. If we're going to have a discussion, we're at least going to agree on the actual meaning of words, otherwise attempting to discuss them is going to be fruitless.

To blame means to assign responsibility for a fault or wrong. At no point in my comment above did I assign responsibility to anyone for any fault or wrong. In this case, the "fault or wrong" would be being paid too high. Again, nowhere in my comment did I say, or even imply that the new grads are responsible for their high pay. That fault would (obviously) lie with the people willing to give them such high pay.

Based on this, you can now see why the rest of your comment doesn't make sense. The new grads aren't responsible for doing anything (they don't have to not accept the money or whatever) because it isn't their fault in the first place.

Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by random314 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:57PM (#20945182)
At this point it is clear that you are not engaging in discussion in good faith.

Envy followed by anger is a common human emotion and every person has to find their own path to come to terms with it.

Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by pb7 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:52PM (#20945138)
From the fact that you took a dump on the steps of this thread and have repeatedly refused to back up or explain your points both to me and others who responded to you by arguing over semantics and side stepping questions, I'm just going to assume you are acting in bad faith.
Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by tidepod12 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:54PM (#20945155)
I know that saying "now you're just arguing semantics" is a smug way to get out of having to participate in an actual discussion, but it's silly to do that here. You brought up the claim of blame, and now you're backpedaling when it's revealed that you used the word incorrectly. It's not arguing semantics when your entire point rests on the meaning of the word.

If you aren't willing to abide by the actual meaning of words when you attempt to use them, you're the bad faith actor, and a discussion is going to get us nowhere.

Re:Compensation in 2019 – new grad tech offers by mattkrause on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:46PM (#20945993)
Raise taxes in a fairly progressive way.

Use that money to fund education, healthcare, public parks, infrastructure, basic research, etc, including by paying the people doing that work a bit more.