“I remember when Google was small and scrappy,” Pichai said at the meeting, as reported by CNBC. “Fun didn’t always — we shouldn’t always equate fun with money. I think you can walk into a hard-working startup and people may be having fun and it shouldn’t always equate to money.”
I don’t disagree but google is far from a startup now the work is not exciting.
But maybe better framing would be the time to be responsible is when things are going good rather than when it’s too late and leads to job cuts. What’s fun is having a job altogether?