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[–] 113 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Google got rid of thousands of employees in the last 5 years and this asshole gets half a billion dollars...

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago

    Normal people fantasize about winning the lottery and having a few million mostly so that they can stop participating in the rat race, quit their job, have more time for creativity, have more time for family, have more time to be human. The fact that these people blow past that, and continue to want to hoard wealth shows how sick they actually are. If they were hoarding literally anything else nobody would question it. They do not work harder than everyone else.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    That would be a great idea. Imagine a group of countries who get together and decide to coordinate economic policies, like NATO but rather than military action, and it focuses on the internal distribution of resources. They could perhaps do a much better job precisely targeting individuals with sanctions, and would perhaps be a much better wielder of the “tariff” in any kind of weaponized fashion.

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I propose there is a final step in Cory Doctorow's enshittification theory, which is one step past the company collecting rents from captured business and customer bases: the CEO leading the enshittification push collecting exorbitant rewards for facilitating the process.

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  • [–] 44 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So what exactly does he do that’s worth $300,000/hr? Or let’s say he works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the whole year (and you know he does not), $190,000/hr?

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Lol, hopefully any Googlers happy with their $500k pay package stop and consider if Sundar is really worth 1,000 of them.

    (Yes I know this is technically a 3-year pay package so it's closer to ~450x a single $500k pay package)

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Fucking banchode.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    No one person deserves that pay package.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Why does he need 60x life savings?

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    My problem is how do I get people to stop using google.

    I can open a business, but if I’m not on the monopoly search app, nobody will know.

    I don’t use google anymore, but everyone else does, and no, they won’t migrate off gmail and Apple and Google don’t let you change your search provider. Google doesn’t even let you remove Google Search from pixel launcher.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Be sheer existence in a capitalist society, we a contributing to an insane wealth disparity, wars all over the world, the breakdown of democracy and law and order, and the total destruction of our biotope.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have you noticed how ancient religious texts like the Bible often heavily focus on financial themes, especially debt and inequality? This was long before capitalism existed. The existence of markets (capitalist or not) tends to lead to inequality. In fact, modern capitalist societies were the first to have the ability (though not necessarily the will...) to adequately address this issue using progressive taxation, as opposed to the older methods like the Jubilee, bans on usury, and later feudalism (all of which have severe drawbacks).

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Yes, I have! Jesus and the money changers, Moses and the golden calf, easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, money is the root of all evil- I can go on forever.

    My belief is that Man being cast out of paradise is a story of the break between nomadic and sedentary life, because we were able to live in purity and harmony with the world as it were, in plenty and only using what we needed, and wanted for nothing- and what is the first thing that happens after Man is cast out? Man lives in a hut and is toiling and plowing the soil, followed by a long list of kings, one more brutal than the next.

    The accumulation of wealth is the root of evil.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    wasnt he in the epstein files a bunch?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Has he hit his FIRE number yet?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Makes s nse as Google is the shittiest it has ever been.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    It's not Google problem, it's problem of people that work for Google. They create the system that allows that.

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    [–] 25 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Guys it's OK - its because Sundar Pichai works 45,888 times harder than minimum wage workers.

    It's all a fair and just meritocracy.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Graphene can’t come out with their new phone fast enough.

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    What a disgusting amount of money

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm sure that paycheck is indicative of how much harder he works compared to all those lazy engineers.

    Hey Google employees ... see that number? That's your unpaid wages going to some prick at the top who thinks he has worked 4,613x harder than you..

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