HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

pardonmyfrench

1 karma · joined March 28, 2019

submissionscomments
pardonmyfrench··on 1100 layoffs at Bay Area tech companies
Any company where the CEO makes over 25 times the average worker is mismanaged. Are they honestly suggesting that the CEO gets 200 times more work in, or has 200 times the experience, or maybe 200 times the connections? Or some combination? Which is it?
pardonmyfrench··on Show HN: SocialAmnesia – Open-source tool that auto-erases old Reddits/tweets
How does this tool play with large data gatherers like the Library of Congress that regularly archive tweets? Just asking for visibility.
pardonmyfrench··on Half of Older Americans Have Nothing in Retirement Savings
Socialism isn’t the problem, it’s decency. If you look at corporations, we’ve had a very strong socialistic corporate culture for some time. People who make almost nothing are the least capable of avoiding taxes that do exist, even if they are lessened. Large corporate entities on the other hand, are often given negative tax bills for reasons I can not begin to fathom.
pardonmyfrench··on Half of Older Americans Have Nothing in Retirement Savings
There’s a stronger need for CEOs to stop acting like mafia members and demanding 500 times what a standard employee earns. If you fleece the poorest, naturally you’re going to have people with no savings. CEOs will naturally pat themselves on the back and say “I deserve this”, but do their employees deserve to be living on the streets post retirement? It seems like people are no longer anything but a commodity to be used until broken and then discarded.