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Re:Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M... by PragmaticPulp on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:19PM (#34998635)
> "But we had to do <terrible thing> because it's the law" isn't an excuse

If the “terrible thing” you’re referring to is paying someone according to a contract signed then, yes, it’s an excuse for why they had to do it.

That’s literally how contracts work.

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Re:Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M... by danaris on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:24PM (#34998726)
If you agreed to pay one person enough to do nothing that you have to lay off thousands of other people, I don't care if you signed a contract to do it—it's still worthy of condemnation.

All it changes is the timing of when the action worthy of condemnation occurred.

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Re:Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M... by j_walter on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:29PM (#34998831)
$10M/yr = 50x $200K/yr

Not paying him and getting sued for it would save about 50 jobs temporarily. Not "thousands"...

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Re:Company Lays Off 8k While Paying Matthew McConaughey $10M... by danaris on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:09PM (#35000286)
Changes the semantics, but not the underlying ethics.
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