Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by Barrin92 on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:56AM (#28563803)

I don't think doing that through money is a good thing. I actually thought about that a lot when Tony Hsieh died, which probably a lot of people here are familiar with. He was incredibly generous, had the best intentions, but at the end of the day he created dependency relationships.

'Offering' other people a life well lived as if that should be my task and not theirs, and justifying things you otherwise wouldn't do has very big problems. Because you can always take it one step further, it never ends really.

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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by necovek on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:52AM (#28564350)

You could start a business and hire people: offering others a chance is not necessarily about just donating money and letting others live as leeches.

Basically, anyone who's got kids is trying (struggling?) to impart this very life lesson: it's easiest to just get your kids what they want, but that's not the best way to raise them.

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Re:Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity f... by fragmede on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:43PM (#28590189)

Sort of. Most relationships have dependencies of some sort, but Tony Hsieh's money allowed him to take it to the next level, and not in a good/healthy way. But there's money and then there's money. Or rather, there's being poor and there's poverty, and money fixes that. If someone is struggling and living paycheck to paycheck because they don't make enough money to live on (minimum wage hasn't been enough to live on for decades), enough money to dig them out of the hole can be literally lifesaving.

You can't teach a man to fish if he's dead from starvation.

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