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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by yunohn on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:48AM (#28561714)
> People shouldn't be shocked when there's money on the line.

Well, I guess that’s that then. We might as well get rid of human ethics and morals, trust based systems, and justice.

Apparently, capitalism and the love of money is all we need!

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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by vishnugupta on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:50AM (#28562080)
> We might as well get rid of human ethics and morals, trust based systems, and justice.

In my experience these values are invoked when sums involved are not life altering.

As the saying goes if you owe $5000 to a bank then the bank owns you but if you owe $500MM then you own the bank.

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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by dcow on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:21AM (#28561903)
Welcome to 21st century globalism. When you build an entire society around fundamental economic power, what do you think you'll get? Not that?
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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by yunohn on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:26AM (#28562310)
We can always ask/demand more of others. And in cases of ethical or moral uncertainty, we can introduce rules/laws, as society has done for millennia.

The answer is not always to give up and support unethical behavior.

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