• Reddit’s CEO said that when he returned in 2015, he had to remind employees to work hard.

  • There’s a tendency in the US tech industry to place idealism above hard work, he said.

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    2 months ago

    Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

    They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

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      It’s so absurd for them to think they are going to get people to work harder without idealism.

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          A lot of people don’t understand what productivity means and often use it interchangeably with working harder. However from the owner’s perspective, getting salaried workers to work more hours, assuming the extra hours produce marginally more output is net new profit. As they’re seeking ever increasing profit, that’s one lever they have to push to get some growth. The next one on the labour side is decreasing salaries.

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    Guy who never worked hard in his life tries to tell other people to work hard.

    Yes sometimes these guys (CEOs) do longer hours, but it consits of eating dinner with other Cs, looking at presentations (which they cant judge because they generally have no idea how the actual business runs), sitting in meeting, flying to other meetings and pretending to look at some company numbers and of course having the very very high responsibility that they keep talking about that they actually never ever have.

    Does this mean they should make x50 or more than the average worker ? You judge that.

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    It’s always funny seeing these silicon valley startups have essentially zero retained employees and engineers except the CEO.

    All money machines built on the backs of long gone engineers that only exist because they’ve cornered their share of the oligopoly market.

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      Yep. Exactly. Before Elon went full Nazi and during the API riots, he said that he wants reddit to be like X and run like how musk operates it

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    Maybe people should go back to “not working very hard” because Reddit has spiraled into a shit hole ever since it’s users became ad revenue generators.

    Fuck Steve Huffman, fuck Reddit, Nazi sympathizing shithole website.

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      They just outright ban people now. Been a Reddit user with zero problems for well over a decade, like 13 years, I’m now banned completely for upvoting Luigi content and saying I was surprised Kanye hadn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet which is apparently promoting violence. They’re really going out of their way to purge users.

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        Funny. I said I didn’t understand why CIA hadn’t killed Trump yet. That is also promoting violence, I guess… If you completely ignore all the people they’ve killed in the past with a worse reason than what Trump has done specifically to the CIA.

        The least they could’ve done was banning me for when I said Trump deserves to hang upside down for an extended amount of time in piñata hanging height.

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    Spez maybe should have worked harder at not destroying both shareholder value and the trust of the people that actually made the site what it was.

    Like who is he working for here, because it doesn’t seem like anyone’s pleased about him

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    Ah yes, Steve showing his true colors.

    “Forget moral convictions or a greater purpose than self enrichment. Reddit is public now baby, this thing makes money, not societal progress!”

    And in the vacuum, Lemmy rises up.

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    “In the Bay Area, broadly, is this — it’s almost an entitlement of, ‘I work at these companies, but I don’t have to work very hard and I’m here for myself,’” he said.

    I always found it amusing how the term “entitlement” has been butchered by Americans. It’s the only language they know and they keep butchering it with low level polemical theatrics.

    How is “I’m here for myself” an entitlement? This is not your family. The goal in any job is to maximize returns, i.e. least amount of work for high financial return (like … wait for it … running a business). Sure there are other factors at play too (career growth, not wanting others to have to work more because of you, being genuinely interested in what you are doing and not seeing it as work, not wanting to treat customers like shit), but that’s an individual thing. A business isn’t automatically entitled to any of that.

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      The entitlement of the business owners and CEO are the real fucking entitlement here. These pricks aren’t entitled to my motivation. If they want me to be motivated to work hard, they have to provide that motivation. If the pay is shit, the work is shit, the colleagues are shit, and the boss is an entitled prick, there’s no fucking way I’m motivated, and no fucking way am I gonna work hard.

      While we’re on the topic. If a business owner wants his workers to care about the profits of the company. Maybe they should be guarenteed a part of the profits, possibly even make their share of the profits be determined by how much value they add to the company. Though I see why the business owner doesn’t want socialist stuff like that, since they’d end up owing the company money.