dave250

To be able to file for unemployment, and best case they give you a severance, or at minimum pay you for your vacation days. It will depend on your circumstance, but there are certainly benefits.

> I don't know if it's always true for people, but my performance goes up and down quite a lot depending on how much I believe in the group mission and the group dynamic. I'll occasionally stay late working for some abstract metric that might impact 10% of my pay, but I'll stay up 48 hours working fanatically to make something work for my friends and co-workers and the dream of success in changing the world that the group is striving for together. ---

I think it is primarily people who find a strong sense of identity in work and careers that think this way. For many, their passions lie outside of work and they do indeed want to maximize their value and time so that they can focus on things they care about.

So to say filtering out "greedy people" is quite demeaning IMO.