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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by brigandish on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:37AM (#32176118)
That's not what I was responding to though. This is:

> Imagine if almost everyone collectively at Salesforce said, “nope, this is dumb! We are going to stop working until this benefit is handed out to everyone at the company.” It’d be changed back / expanded within 48 hours.

That's a prisoner's dilemma, people holding out for the best they can get. If enough people defect then it won't work.

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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by AmericanChopper on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:27AM (#32177293)
The prisoners dilemma doesn’t apply to this situation, because every single individual involved can, without any cooperation from anybody else, easily get the optimal outcome for themselves.
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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by Shish2k on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:44AM (#32177374)
If you define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked quit”, yes. But I think a lot of people would define “optimal outcome” as “people who don’t like having their benefits revoked don’t get them revoked”.
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Re:Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday ... by AmericanChopper on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:04AM (#32178824)
The distinction is unimportant, and if you care about it very much then you’re just losing on purpose.
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