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Language and customs are valued differently between Europe and East Asia, and one of the reason is poverty. I'll take Vietnam as an example as I grew there and now live in Europe.

We (the majority ethnics) do appreciate the cultures from minor ethics In fact, the minor ethnics regions have been a popular destination for young generation to get away from the urban life.

On the other hands, we cannot have a blind eyes on the taboos that comes from isolation, illiteracy and poverty. We're talking about little women rights, child labor, child marriage.

I'm not saying the same problems are in Tibet, but it wouldn't surprise if there other things going than what you're seeing from an outsider/tourist eyes, because the context is the same: high illiteracy rate and isolation.

Education is one way out. China is clearly having a strong take on this approach, but let's hope they do know how to preserve the culture as well.

Certainly you can get a considerable amount of salary, depending on your angle of working in a startup. In the recent career changes, I often look at 1-2 years old start-up where tech side has been rather stagnant. My angle is clear -> getting stuffs done, move the tech forward and make sure it is aligned with the company's direction

But this is not enough for founders to have a peace of mind regarding your commitment.

- If you have already built a reputation, then that's enough for you to argue for a market rate salary.

- Else you would need to trade for some equity.

What are you getting out of this compared to a corp job:

- The work is likely more interesting.

- Away from corporate landscape (if that's not your thing)

- Gaining experience in new domain, doing thing in new ways.

I don't hate group chat, it's just the kind of thing I won't use for work, because of the blurry context of every group chat at work.

People will try their best to be professional in work chat, they comment on ideas, share their thoughts about someone else work, and so on. But it's chat, I mean, it's CHAT! We all know that chat culture built up from the AOL era (or Yahoo in Asia..). One of a sudden, someone will have a casual comment about it, and then someone else, and then the whole group became casual. And then of course, there is the whole thing of scrolling back to get the context of what people are discussing.

Then teams make rules in chat for things to be in order. But well, if you can make people function strictly in chat, why don't just force them to a video meeting?

During the last month, this the only use case I have for group chat: "Let's lunch"