• Dran@lemmy.world
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    What’s extra insane about the google one, Pichai’s salary of 225m divided over the 10k workers fired is a staggering 22.5k/yr. If you assume the average tech salary of a remote google employee is somewhere in the 50k-100k range, that’s 2.5k-5k / 10k workers that could have been saved by cutting Pichai instead.

    Forget societal ethics, how do you justify to shareholders cutting ten thousand salaries worth of jobs and giving half the money to the CEO?

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        This feels like one of those weird game theory problems where you have to solve for the minimum amount you would have to pay to ensure no one bothers to stop you.

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        If I were a large shareholder, I’d demand a lot more than half goes to growth or my own dividends.

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      Isn’t Pichai’s compensation mostly tied to stock?

      It’s… Not really the same thing, because being the CEO of the company ties the hands behind his back if he wants to actually use his stock compensation.

      Edit: for any Google SWE making <100k, just move to the US, man. The pay is so much higher it’s not even funny.

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        Comparing pay from one country to another is a lot harder than just looking at the numbers. Earning 100k$ in the US is not the same as earning 100k$ in Poland for example

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        Then they will just fight against each other for the remaining food… probably while their corporate overlords find ways to market the fights.

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        Well, if there was food hoarded by the wealthy, I’d agree with you. But I’m not sure. Much like storming the Bastille, it’d be more symbolic than anything.

        Billionaires have a big number on a piece of paper, but they don’t really have anything of value to a revolution, so I think most of them would just end up on the street like anyone else.

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          I think their comment was more about how those content with bread and circuses will tolerate a lot more abuse in other ways to avoid risk losing those things. When doing nothing is punished by the stick of death, the other sticks seem a lot less intimidating.

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    Gotta compensate the sadness of those CEOs who had to fire their dear employees.

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    Not surprising at all. One thing I’ve also found hilarious is when companies list “never laid off a single employee” as a perk, lmao

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    Also can be last cash grab before leaving with a golden parachute, as industry doesn’t feel healthy