“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by shkkmo on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:17PM (#27001421)

Occam's Razor is not an appropriate tool to make the point you are trying to make.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by colordrops on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:57AM (#27003265)

Not sure why you are getting down voted. Occam's Razor is heavily abused and misused in the majority of cases, treating it like some axiomatic mathematical principle and misapplying it to human behavior.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by aranchelk on Saturday May 01, 2021 @12:27AM (#27003090)

Yeah, this is exactly right:

1) Employees left for ideological reasons.

2) Employees left out of self interest.

There are reasons I believe it’s predominantly 1, but neither explanation is more convoluted. Misuse of an excellent thinking tool.

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Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t... by dragonwriter on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:45AM (#27005162)

Those aren’t actually alternative explanation; values define self interest, they aren’t orthogonal to it.

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