Why? Why can't we effort to find companies to work for where we can grow and stay for the long haul? Places where we can gain experience from, for example, seeing our solutions and theories stand the test of time? Iterate on them, watch others grow meaningfully over several years, watch ourselves grow meaningfully over years.

I want to find a company and encourage the sort of company that pays all its employees fairly, well and with regular cost of living adjustments along with promotions (or raises), that I can remain with and see through it.

As employees, we should be encouraging companies to grow a culture of employee retention; and employers should be efforting toward the same.

This race to the bottom needs to stop; and, "Hacker News" wants to be a place full of startups. That is, a place full of companies that can make those decisions for their whole staff early and cultivate that style, themselves.