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StilesCrisisyesterday at 3:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

Good for you. I've got a family and no other source of income.


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 3:19 PM

You think Google is the single company out there who is willing to employ you? How come?

Edit: Thinking about it, your comment actually made me more frustrated than I realized. I've been poor enough to having to be homeless at some points in my life, and yes, I've worked for immoral companies too, because I need food and shelter. But once you move up in life to the comfy jobs like software engineering, you don't have any excuse anymore that it's just about "feeding your family" when you literally have a sea of jobs available. It might be an excuse you tell yourself to justify your reasoning for getting paid more, but if you truly did care about it, you'd make a different choice, and still be able to feed your family, and I'm almost confident your family would be OK with you making that choice too, unless they also lack the empathy you seem to be missing.

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freejazzyesterday at 8:10 PM

So why pretend like you wouldn't have taken the job in the first place?

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