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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:14PM (#34418210)
If people were paid by brilliance most celebrities and politicians would be poor and mathematicians would be billionaires.

The world doesn’t work that way.

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by kmonsen on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:30PM (#34418462)
I think the overall spirit of your argument is true, but I think you define brilliance too narrowly with saying it primarily applies to mathematicians.
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