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You’d think striking it suddenly rich would be the ultimate ticket to freedom. Without money worries, the world would be your oyster. Perhaps you’d champion a worthy cause, or indulge a sporting passion, but work? Surely not. However, remaining gainfully employed after sudden wealth is more common than you’d think. After all, there are numerous high-profile billionaires who haven’t called it quits despite possessing the luxury to retire, including some of the world’s top chief executives, such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.
But it turns out, the suddenly rich who aren’t running companies are also loathe to quit, even though they have plenty of money. That could be, in part, because the link between salary and job satisfaction is very weak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:35PM
Just imagine every job is like contributing to an open source project. Suck maintainer dick to get your contribution accepted or it will rot in your personal fork where no one will ever see or use it. Otherwise maintain your own fork and spam the shit out of the search engines or your fork will rot and no one will ever see or use it. Deal with lazy fuckers who contribute nothing except bug reports telling you to add features for them or to demand you port your project to platforms you never use. Hell just imagine every job is like working on Linux. You either have Linus reaming your ass or you have Sarah Sharp trying to fire Linus for being a colossal fucking asshole. Either way you work with assholes. Basic income is not going to make assholes more pleasant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:44PM
Small difference is most businesses are out to make money. Hard to do that if Bob is causing high turnover.
And no, I'm already almost at the independently wealthy point, and my employers know it, so I don't even catch 1/10 of the shit other people do.
Maybe the problem is the organization of open source projects? I mean most socialist countries become shitholes. Hard not to imagine most things that emulate that end up the same.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @12:56PM
And no, I'm already almost at the independently wealthy point, and my employers know it, so I don't even catch 1/10 of the shit other people do.
You mean your employers aren't itching to fire you juuuust before you become independently wealthy, to screw you over and make you beg? How fucking lucky are you!
Maybe the problem is the organization of open source projects? I mean most socialist countries become shitholes. Hard not to imagine most things that emulate that end up the same.
The organization of open source projects is anybody can quit at any time, the most stubborn asshole always wins, and the key to advancement is to become the biggest asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 13 2016, @01:05PM
The organization of open source projects is anybody can quit at any time
Or fork the project. Or start another project. Or possibly the problem isn't the other people...
In any case, that's different than coding at EA and having to make rent.
the most stubborn asshole always wins, and the key to advancement is to become the biggest asshole.
See the Soviet Union.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday December 13 2016, @03:00PM
You mean your employers aren't itching to fire you juuuust before you become independently wealthy, to screw you over and make you beg? How fucking lucky are you!
Oddly enough, people aren't colossally stupid just because you have infantile stereotypes.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:26PM
> Hard to do that if Bob is causing high turnover
Hey! It's not my fault if those guys can't handle perspective and context.