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> Interesting lesson in how expectations are relative, not absolute.

Yup. I have a hard time taking any of the whining on HN seriously. People being paid $300K+ but all they can do is complain that they attend too many meetings. People that job hop once a year but the idea of layoffs is high treason.




I’ve been chastised before for suggesting “there is no humanitarian crisis” when engineers (like myself) are laid off. A strange “I deserve to be employed like this” vein, which is natural, but wrong.


You can be highly paid and still negativity affected by layoffs beyond the financial side. E.g. if you are on an H1b or L1 visa.


> whining on HN seriously

> People being paid $300K+

It's probably very far from the average HNer


Agreed. I'm not even nearing 1/3 of that.

It is, however, a fact that a relatively high amount of HNers earn way over 100k due to the prevalence of people form SV on here. Tech salaries in the rest of the world are nowhere near those in SV.


Oh, also people contesting irrelevant points. :) The average HNer is probably paid half that, but dahfizz's point still stands.


> People that job hop once a year but the idea of layoffs is high treason.

Because the people doing layoffs are getting $250M/y in stock value alone.




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