anonquixey

Raising prices by 1.3% also has some impact on sales. In theory it should be greater than 1.3% (or else why hasn't the restaurant greedily raised its prices already). To get higher wages for the workers you need one of two things.

1. Go upmarket in some way, either sell nicer food with a better margin or higher more oroductive employees.

2. Through collective action of some kind get all competitors to raise their prices and pass the cartel profits to the worker (for instance a minimum wage law could accomplish this).

I am a google engineer, and a fairly successful one.

I would absolutely despise it if I had to manage my own OS, just like I despise thinking about my keyboard layout or text editor.

Hacker News overrepresents the hacker type which loves the feeling of full control but I'd estimate that at least 33% of engineers, including many very talented ones, don't want that, and only want to focus on the concrete problems they are trying to solve.

A lot of your relationship strategies depend on slack that will soon be gone. If a chore gets done by whoever is feeling less tired it simply won't get done. Explicitly decide who does what and be prepared to revisit frequently to make it fair.

I got free academic access to this dataset. The data is anonymized and aggregated to the census block level (500 people). It does not allow for the kind of tracking that the article is fear mongering about.

Another former employee. I'll add that once search engine for apps clearly wouldn't work there was an attempt to pivot to something like Google cards but directly linked to the app (so yelp reviews for restaurants instead of Google reviews). This wasn't a bad idea but they raised the money for a large scale product (1000s of apps) and so invested in scale before proving the market fit. Combine that with Alibaba money splitting focus again and there never was a useful product launched.

(Google employee now: views are my own)