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Re:Every time an engineer joins Facebook, a startup dies by igorsyl on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @03:53PM (#3978449)
People may create more value at a large company but most of the compensation will go to the founders and investors.
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Re:Every time an engineer joins Facebook, a startup dies by overgryphon on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @04:03PM (#3978484)
Most of the compensation goes to the founders and investers in startups as well.
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Re:Every time an engineer joins Facebook, a startup dies by michael_fine on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @04:05PM (#3978501)
But this isn't really a problem then. If the issue with people being hired away from startups is that startups create more value for society, then that's an externality, and we should care. But if it's a question of potentially higher compensation, then we can expect people to act selfishly, and so it's not really a problem.
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