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Remember when tech workers dreamed of working for a big company for a few years, before striking out on their own to start their own company that would knock that tech giant over?

Then that dream shrank to: work for a giant for a few years, quit, do a fake startup, get acqui-hired by your old employer, as a complicated way of getting a bonus and a promotion.

Then the dream shrank further: work for a tech giant for your whole life, get free kombucha and massages on Wednesdays.

And now, the dream is over. All that’s left is: work for a tech giant until they fire your ass, like those 12,000 Googlers who got fired six months after a stock buyback that would have paid their salaries for the next 27 years.

We deserve better than this. We can get it.

    • Shadywack@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Difference in stock options as compensation for executives vs managers or the entire middle management layer is beyond insane. Like exponentially more.

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      1 year ago

      Some. But at firms of even modest size, though, a CEO receives ownership of capital, not just salary, as compensation.