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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by philipallstar on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @05:06PM (#45753037)
Almost anywhere in America is also cheaper than California.
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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by pavel_lishin on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @09:55PM (#45755568)
Yep. The NYC area is one exception. I've worked at a company that was acquired, and they laid off quite a few of the NYC-area employees. Rumor had it that some of them were making more than their managers, and their managers' managers.
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Re:AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B by consp on Thursday October 30, 2025 @07:19AM (#45758749)
> Rumor had it that some of them were making more than their managers, and their managers' managers.

So on par with actual value created.

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