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by sdf131 4y ago
The capital being invested has already been taxed at the source. Capital gains shouldn’t even be taxed. I earned it, paid taxes on it; what I do with it beyond that is no one’s business. I’m the one taking the risk yet the government benefi
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by sdf131 5y ago
This isn’t about the billionaires. What is an immense amount of money for individuals (100 billions) really isn’t that significant for a Western government like the United States. Seizing Bezos/Gates wealth would have very little impac
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by sdf131 5y ago
I think we’re ignoring scale here. Is there a country with similar population levels that provides all that? I’m Canadian and I am thankful for our benefits but our public services have been stretched for decades and I’m skeptical that our
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by sdf131 5y ago
There’s a huge gap between the game industry and the rest People do it out of passion, I guess. It’s funny too because the work is usually significantly harder than the much better paid start-up/SaaS jobs. Everyone has college degrees,
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by sdf131 5y ago
Stock options aren’t a thing in the game industry
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by sdf131 5y ago
They’re likely earning ~40-70k so the shift isn’t very significant The real question is: are they changing the deadlines? Studio already suffer from crunch and all the meetings you had on Friday are now spread throughout the week
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by sdf131 5y ago
In my experience, having an up to date LinkedIn profile is more than enough. I have no presence online, I don't do open-source, I went to an absolute no-name regional school, my work experience is nothing more than "Company, title
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by sdf131 5y ago
The renters got to live somewhere for free for a year. It's not a bailout for the landlords, it's paying what's owed to the landlords. Of everyone involved, the renters are the only one who received something in exchange of n
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by sdf131 5y ago
That's true of most companies. Saying that you care about your people doesn't make it true.
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by sdf131 5y ago
You get paid what you're worth, not what you need.
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by sdf131 5y ago
Without RSUs/stock options, it's misleading. They might be paying a competitive _base_ salary but stock is frequently > 50% of Senior employees compensation package
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by sdf131 6y ago
120-150k is closer to the average I would say if you work for a public company or a well funded start-up Top of band for Senior at Shopify is low 200s (varies a bit depending on USD exchange rates) without stock appreciation and it's n
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by sdf131 6y ago
I make 300k in Montreal and know tons of people in the same range. I don't know TC for Mindgeek but 60k is not even close to the "typical" Montreal salary
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by sdf131 6y ago
What misfortune? They made a 100b requests and used 16k CPU hours because because they were careless This cost money to Google, they're the offended party here
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by sdf131 6y ago
This would be pretty short-sighted. Shopify benefits from the app store ecosystem (and can generate revenue from it) while allowing developers to invest in the platform in exchange for building their credibility as Shopify partners & de