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FAANG high salaries are due to the low supply of engineers skilled enough. Otherwise, FAANG would not compete on pay. As high as FAANG pays, supply is still not high enough to lower pay significantly.
OP is arguing that teachers should not be compared to professors because supply may still not be high relative to demand. Additionally, the job is still essential enough to keep demand high despite lack of prestige.
In reality there are many general service platforms that provide access to Netflix in combination with ISPs.
If chrome had a 15% fee to allow users to access websites then I think it would be pretty damaging to innovation on the web.
It’s possible for the argument to be true in this context and false in another context.
It would be really helpful to have some insight into what is driving the move back to the office from people on HN.
I feel that it's unreasonable to equate second hand marijuana smoke with second hand tobacco. It's really hard to consume weed to the same extent as tobacco, so the smoke is in much lower quantity.
The issue is that their bottom line was not impacted early enough.