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Why so hostile?

I’m in the Netherlands, work culture may differ.

So poorly worded. This company should have a better answer to this question, or not engage with the question at all. Comparing compensation is difficult. It isn’t just about how much you do.

Not everybody is a factory line worker where you can simply measure the daily widget output. I’ve been a manager in high tech companies, and people often wildly misjudge their own ability and how they contribute to a broader structural problem in the company. The work is more than daily widget output and doing what you’re told. I also need creativity, pushing back on colleagues, human care, commercial insight, among many aspects of your job. Don’t reduce yourself to your output.

Edit: I know this is probably going to get downvoted. I’m just answering the reality of how capitalist companies operate. In a class struggle sense, no company is going to give you the full value of your labor. Switching to another company will not change that, there is always profit for owners to take. Fighting unfairness in the workplace is one thing, but we can’t know if this is favoritism, the company being bad at judging value, or the worker bad at judging their value. Calling for more to be given to the workers instead of the owners is always right, but that says nothing about the distribution between workers.

Very interesting read, thank you. I think we should treat this as a spam problem, low quality drowns out high quality. If that low quality is human or bot doesn’t matter. But what’s new to me is that it’s a bit of both: These bots have been set up with a noble intent and their operators are simply not knowledgeable enough to realize they’re pushing crap. It’s like kids spamming your family chat group with emojis. They want to contribute to the conversation but don’t know how to do that appropriately yet

That is downstream of corporate takeover of media, is what he’s trying to say. Something that is indeed rarely discussed, but I wouldn’t say never