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Hire someone from roughly your own socioeconomic class and cultural background who won't be tempted to defraud you and just wants a low stress part time job while they work on some personal creative project that requires a high level of intelligence and expertise but pays little (e.g. literary translation, experimental opera, etc), respect their time boundaries, and you'll have a loyal and capable ally for as long as you need one

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Wow, don't tell my boss. (Physicist by day, jazz musician at night). Fortunately, my class and cultural background haven't been a barrier -- I try not to make people feel inferior. It helps to have a job that's vital, but that nobody understands.

>Hire someone from roughly your own socioeconomic class and cultural background who won't be tempted to defraud you and just wants a low stress part time job while they work on some personal creative project

The original argument was that you don't want someone who will be tempted to leave soon, because that then is a waste of the time spent training them.

How about pay someone from a lower socioeconomic class enough that they won't be tempted to defraud you, and don't be a jerk to them.

It is a reality your employees will steal from you at some point, unless you pay them truly astronomical amounts (and even then...) When you have just one, perhaps you will get lucky. With multiple it is a matter of time.

I've spent more than half of my life working, I've never stolen from my employer and I don't recieve "truly astronomical amounts" in pay.

He’s saying that if you pool enough people together, you will get some bad actors. He’s right, although I don’t know if it applies to the EA situation.

A company I worked at, when we got nicer offices that had actual showers, had someone take a dump in the shower within the first month of moving in. I think we were around 1500 employees at the time. It would never occur to me that this would happen, but now I know to expect anything once you get enough people together.

I literally just said "if you have just one, you might get lucky". With that, I was trying to prevent exactly these responses - if you run a company with a reasonable amount of employees and any kind of inventory (or those employees work for you in/around your house, where your stuff is the inventory), some of it will disappear.

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