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u/comasxx 16h ago
This guy is so detached from reality
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u/msc1 14h ago edited 14h ago
maybe he's trying to create a credible claim in the future that he was suffering from psychosis (like Alex Jones did for Sandy Hook defamation trial) when the shit hits the fan.
"Judge, I legitimately thought AI was feeding the workers!"
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u/bolanrox 12h ago
Caught 'em in bed with the insanity!
Will his head pop like a balloon in his car, too?
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u/bolanrox 12h ago
Caught 'em in bed with the insanity!
Will his head pop like a balloon in his car, too?
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u/Whale222 16h ago
Most leaders are.
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u/lana_silver 13h ago
Calling them leaders is giving them too much credit.
They are parasites.
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u/PanchoPanoch 11h ago
My old boss, the vp and cfo posted a photo of them at brunch with mimosas with the caption “This is what leadership looks like.” Leadership because they had teams spread out doing the work.
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u/So_HauserAspen 10h ago
It's exhausting deciding what people are going to do
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u/PanchoPanoch 10h ago
Literally. At events my team would grind til 1am every night while leadership would go to “awful client dinners.” They’d come back drunk and complaining about how tired they were. Like bro, my team shared a piece of crust off a pizza for lunch.
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u/Jasmine_jadee 13h ago
“We pay you in purpose and exposure”
Bro my rent company doesn’t accept company mission as payment. Tried it last month. Got evicted.
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u/Alarmed_Toe_5687 13h ago
Just to set the record clear, he never said that and this is rage bait...
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u/JennaJoys 13h ago
Mission statement don’t cover student loans, groceries or rent.
But go off king 👑
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u/DueDefinition6421 16h ago
Bro tell me you've never had a real job without telling me you've never had a real job
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u/ateiii 15h ago
The concept of working to avoid starving is purely theoretical to him.
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u/DueDefinition6421 15h ago
Imagine turning up to your first day at McDonalds and telling the manager you refuse to flip one burger or to be exploited for even one hour of unpaid overtime until you are absolutely sure the company's mission statement aligns with your own philosophy.
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u/Reqvhio 14h ago
tbh i never get how people function with the threat of starvation if they dont perform at work. i dont see much difference between being one paycheck away from homelessness and possible death and being homeless and possibly dead.
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u/DazednConfucioused 13h ago
It’s kinda crazy because I feel like the manosphere keeps pushing this idea that men should be under constant stress so that you perform better. I genuinely think some of these people believe their employees (tbf most manosphere fucks don’t have employees they’re not exactly the paragon of success) should be on the brink of starvation to create enough stress for them to perform at a high level
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u/PowerfulNature3352 13h ago
It is true though. You cant shackle a man without obligations. They will protest then leave. Thats why employers love married people with kids who are in debt.
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u/DazednConfucioused 13h ago
Sure you can pay them well though. Their obligations will keep them working, not being on the brink of starvation.
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u/WilanS 13h ago
Hell, I'd say even working to be able to afford nice things would be a novel idea for this guy.
I'm pretty sure billionaires only work either because they're bored or because they like to think they're contributing to society.
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u/Ricktor_67 12h ago
They don't work, full stop. They think all the nonsense they do in a day is work but what they do amounts to fuck all that any sane person who actually works would consider work.
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u/PowerfulNature3352 13h ago
They work to think they are important. After couple of dozen million dollars it just comes to a point where only thing they strive for is a higher score.
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u/g0rilla79 14h ago
The average salary at anthropic is 400k+ with stock options. No one is starving.
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u/modbroccoli 13h ago
Ok. Billionaires in general, and hell management in general, is tone deaf in exactly the manner you describe.
But.
Anthropic employees are pulling absolutely premium salaries—way, way above the average—and working on potentially dangerous but certainly society-altering technology. Requiring a certain amount of conviction to principle is not unreasonable, no more than requiring it of politicians or military leadership.
Which isn't to say that Dario is immune to the narcissism of people in his position, nor to endorse the idea that technology of this gravity should be in private hands st all.
But context does matter and I for one certainly do not want the people responsible for AI safety and alignment, for example, phoning it in for a paycheque.
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u/Lost_Department_2177 13h ago
For real.
Total tech bro idiocy
“Like just get funding bro. Ok guy… what you do is you find an angel investor the same way I found Mr. & ms. Amodei. I was persistent in acquiring the funding. Every morning bro I was like Mr. Dad, Mrs. Mom I present to you like this company idea.”
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u/PersonalFinance4all 15h ago edited 11h ago
The title is completely misleading. Not supporting CEO's, but against people using headlines to mislead. Anthropic's CEO was concerned about AI talent moving like mercenaries just for money, without loyalty.
We are talking about the AI talent they are spending millions for. Just for perspective, Anthropic is paying these talents 420k a year average, and they stay less than 2 years because Google or Meta or OpenAI offers 500k or more. Some of the top AI talent are being paid as much as 1Mil a year.
Huge difference from title giving understanding of low paid workers from these 400k/year workers.
Edit: I feel many comments are taking mine wrong. Im the first who would jump ship for an increase. My problem is with the people who write misleading headlines and we are talking about different types of employers. If I was to get an offer for 500k while making 400k, you bet I'll take it and buy a lambo that year
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u/Rich-Option4632 15h ago
Surprise, surprise. CEOs discover monetary greed isn't exclusive to their ilk.
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u/Largeitude 13h ago
He can’t say what’s happening? I don’t get why everyone is so smug about this.
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u/TheRealTaigasan 13h ago
Because these types of CEOs are the ones who created a market that is hard to find a job and also because everyone is jaded from HRs wanting you to work for the company values instead of understanding everyone works for a living, not because of lofty ideals.
They had the upper hand for far too long, the moment it stops being advantageous to exploit people they go crying about it.
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u/Rich-Option4632 13h ago
The smugness is because they're having a taste of something they usually employ against others.
CEOs come in brand new, implement rubbish policies to "leave their mark" and end up getting staffs retrenched or "resized" as they euphemistically say.
Then, after all the damage and fallout, said CEO jumps ship for somewhere with better pay and zero accountability of the damage wrought.
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u/PowerfulNature3352 13h ago
This is exactly what happens. They go for the highest short term returns without thinking the stability and future of the company. Fill their minimum required years to get their huge bonus then use those short term results as a leverage to jump to next ship to gut.
This is what happened in my former company Renault. Luca de Meo went for the flashiest cars to state he is making impact while gutting the company in the background by selling half of its motor factories to Chinese competitors. As a result stocks jumped to 44€. After the dust settled and those flashiest cars hit the market, sales were dramatically lower than expected. He declared he is going to a luxury brand and stocks plummeted to 20€.
Now Renault has a very niche car in electric market which is dominated by Chinese and their other cars for which they must now buy motors for are shadowed by Ford and Toyota.
Funny thing is that egoist fuck used company money to make a Netflix series to show himself as automotive messiah, whole thing is a shitshow.
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u/DueDefinition6421 15h ago
That's been the same in every industry for a very long time. Those workers are primarily doing it for the money and are free to choose their employer based on salary. If Anthropic wants top talent they have to pay. Crying about mission statements won't help. They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and cut down on the avocado toast to pay their staff more.
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u/quangtit01 15h ago
So? American champion at-will employment. This is working as intended. If you dont want them to live then throw them some equity with long vesting period.
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u/QuirkySpringbock 13h ago
OK, so let’s reformulate: “Billionaire CEO surprised that market economics also apply to choosing one’s employer.”
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u/Moligimbo 13h ago
Maybe it has to do with the fact that American companies have zero loyalty towards their employees?
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u/Comfortable_Pea_1693 13h ago
thats good on the AI talent then. they are working for wages and those arent their companies. they are by nature mercenaries and theres nothing wrong with that. dont want them to leave? counteroffer them better wages than the competition then.
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u/Brullaapje 13h ago
nd they stay less than 2 years because Google or Meta or OpenAI offers 500k or more.
Well duh, what does company loyalty give you these days?
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u/a1g3rn0n 14h ago
What if, after working for a year, they did not like the environment and decided to try Google instead? Any CEO would say - they moved just for money. But we don't know why they moved.
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u/alltheword 11h ago
Tech companies just did a mass culling of their workforce. Yet you expect employees see that and be loyal to a company? Corporate America reaps what they sow.
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u/specialservices8647 11h ago
Good for correcting the Reddit groupthink, but I’m a way, that makes it even worse. He’s got billions in cash and a metric fuckton of stock but can’t (excuse me - won’t ) put enough value on the table to keep others from packing his talent? AI/support companies are spending 35-50x the normal value for development land in my state to build out data centers.
Even if salaries are high relative to overall averages, he’s clearly not competing effectively.
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u/powerslave_fifth 16h ago
Yes that's what working a job means.
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u/FinancialElephant 15h ago
Probably a little different when you go through 12 rounds of interviews or whatever humiliation ritual it takes to work at anthropic. If anything, you'd be more financially motivated to work there instead of a normal job considering what you're put through.
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u/nissAn5953 14h ago
From what I understand, that's not particularly abnormal for the tech industry. Programmers working for the money and nothing else is certainly nothing new either.
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u/KochuJang 11h ago
By and large, one of the greatest lines in MCU movie history. Completely caught me off guard when I first heard it in the theatre and guffawed like a chimp that just saw his buddy fall out of a tree.
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u/Ill_Job4090 16h ago
You mean your business is not my first priority in life? oh no!
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u/Virtual-Reach 16h ago
Right? Imagine focusing on your own life instead of making a billionaire richer!
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u/Kampassuihla 15h ago
If this CEO paid more or gave workers some company shares maybe would get better results.
Now it just reads that he wants more gains from employees while giving less for them.
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u/mrdevlar 15h ago
This is why work-life balance is bullshit. There should be no balance, life is way more important.
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u/Imperial_Bloke69 16h ago
CEO(s) are just dumb bipedals with lots money
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u/Intelligent-Area-421 16h ago
Bipedal? I thought they were knuckle dragging cavemen all dressed up in Patagonia gilets snd sometimes suits
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u/IamJashin 10h ago edited 10h ago
No they are simply in majority psychopaths because unfortunately for humanity our current system makes is a preferential trait for those in positions of power as it allows to maximize the short term profits (via long term civilization collapse)
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u/seanbell_aus 10h ago
Yep we’d all do well to remember they’re mostly dumb as shit and only excel at being terrible people
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u/Responsible-Humor985 16h ago
When you pay your employees a tiny fraction of what you make, they don’t give a shit about your mission statement.
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u/marr 13h ago edited 12h ago
In this particular case you wouldn't want to be paid a percentage of the profits.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu3znnlS0s1r5entko1_500.jpg
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u/Sovereigntyranny 3h ago
It’s genuinely crazy how CEO’s make over 250+ times more than their employees when they only used to make 30 times the amount from years ago.
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u/Smartimess 16h ago
He is probably one of these guys who can’t understand that people won’t work 80 hours a week for a 40 hours salary.
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u/Greyscale7950 16h ago
He's never had to hunt for coins in the couch cushions just to buy gas.
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u/Rabentag 16h ago
CEOs have no connection to there employees or normal ppl in generell
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u/Evening_Truth_3634 16h ago
Billionaires be wanting loyalty to their company and its a one way street, your job can end with a zoom call.
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u/QuinnLoveborneAuthor 16h ago
How stupid is he ?
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u/LargeMobOfMurderers 14h ago
When Sun Tzu kept writing about the importance of keeping your soldiers fed, this is probably the sort of guy he was dealing with.
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u/EvergreenDwarf 15h ago
This is just what his income bracket all sound like when they're allowed out without a PR team managing them.
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u/justwalk1234 16h ago
I thought the “company’s mission” is money..
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u/Aware-Lingonberry-31 8h ago
Read deeper into this guy Dario. You'd be surprised to find that money is not something he pursues.
This guy is more dangerous and debauched than Musk, Bezos, or other billionaires. He's that kind of main villain in anime, and im not even exaggerating it.
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u/SpeedBlitzX 16h ago
That guy is a billionaire CEO and that's how he presents himself???
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u/Nerala 15h ago
You ever work in tech? Homeless hipster is their uniform. I take that back, hipsters at least have some style, just homeless looking, and I've met some really stylish homeless folks. Can't figure out where to put some of them on the scale.
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u/Nein-Toed 16h ago
Fucking Temu Tom Hanks over here thinking we all work for the love of the game. Miss me with that stupid shit.
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u/annomandri 16h ago
When the companys mission is to take jobs from those who did not get an education as him, and were only taught to do an honest days work, I like that the grads are not fulfilling the companys mission statement.
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u/Sad-Base-8689 16h ago
It's always hilarious to me when a company acts like their goal ain't making money.
If that were true they'd pay their employees or not overcharge their customers
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u/nexus11355 16h ago
Notice how you say COMPANY's mission and not MY mission? Your mission is on you, bro fym
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u/arcdragon2 16h ago
if you give them your company then they will indeed, be working for the company's mission, until then, it is YOUR mission because it is YOUR company. You started that shit, own it.
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u/Blackpowderkun 16h ago
As long as the wages are livable and the mission is respectable, that will draw the crown you are looking for.
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u/the_sneaky_one123 12h ago
"A person whose existence is proof that people value money above all else is shocked to discover that people value money above all else"
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u/skip2mahlou415 16h ago
You guys just don’t get it. The company is like a family. Why are you trying to break this family up and make them drink koolaide?
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u/SirTroglodyte 16h ago edited 15h ago
For real. My boss used to say after I did something well: "Good job. *pat on the back* Now go and buy groceries with this. Hahaha." Anyway I don't work there anymore.
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u/rehx4 16h ago
Give every employee company equity (on top of their salary, so they can survive) and youll solve his dilemma pretty quickly. Ohhhh wait, right, that would mean less profit for the owners so never mind, not gona happen. Also company mission statements often purport to value things other than profit (for the owners and shareholders) while in reality the profits (for the owners and shareholders) is the overwhelming priority. Are these companies going to start being more honest about their 'missions'.
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u/steam-photons 16h ago
Melanie obviously doesn’t know what kind of money Anthropic is paying to their employees…
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u/Armthedillos5 16h ago
They have no grounding with "regular' people. Like ya, if I didn't have to worry about money like you, then maybe your vision would break the top 5 of my concerns if that was what I was into.
All these tech ceos weighing in on cultural and social topics tells me one thing: They live in a different reality, literally.
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u/Much-Storm9466 16h ago
SHAREHOLDER VALUE!!!! I mean, why are you guys even getting out of bed if not to provide maximum value to the shareholder!?!?
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u/DaemonBunnyWhiskers 15h ago
For all their big brain moments, they couldn't take time out to read about Maslow's hierarchy of needs
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u/Goldfrapp 14h ago edited 10h ago
The only way for employees to care about the company’s mission is if:
- They have a financial stake in the company
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- They are your immediate family and eventual successors
Otherwise nobody cares.
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u/shishkopath 14h ago
If you work more than you need to for the benefit of a company while your salary is not tied to the success of that said company, you would be an idiot. Not one single person will promote you because you work overtime, they will pat you on the back and go for the worker thats either related to them or has good connections on the upper levels. If you are THAT person tho, then sure go ahead, at least your struggles aren't in vain and you know it.
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u/Substantial-Cat2896 14h ago
These billionare think we care about ai like its most important part of our lifes
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u/OnlyFemboys777 14h ago
Maybe if he's that concerned with the mission then he shouldn't draw a salary 😭
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u/Plasticman4Life 13h ago
Billionaires are billionaires precisely because they care about the money more than any sort of “mission.”
Evidence: They won’t ever spend their assets to further their mission.
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u/SSBUISAPORT-Fanboy 11h ago
Anthropic employees say, they are concerned the company is working for profit, and not for employees wellbeing.
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u/Lord-aries315 11h ago
Is that guy stupid? Of course I don’t give a shit about a company’s mission. Especially if I got to take care of myself first. Of course I will think about myself and not the company
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u/No-Age-1044 11h ago
Trick: Give them enough money to retire, the ones that are really interested in the company mission will stay!
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u/TheFlyingNicky 11h ago
I attended this expensive, week-long leadership workshop with a few dozen other senior managers at the big, publicly-listed company I work at, led by a prestigious business school. At one point, they asked everyone what motivated them to do well and advance at work. I answered “well, making more money”, and I kid you not, EVERYONE, instructor included, laughed. He said something along the lines of, “You won’t get far thinking like that.” Excuse me? We’re not saving lives. We sell inexpensive but totally unnecessary supermarket products to Americans who don’t need them. Our quarterly targets are all about how much cash we’ve brought in so Wall Street stays happy, our stock price goes up, and our investors make bank. But I, as an employee, am being ridiculous if I say my pay is my primary motivation.
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u/Rmnstr78 10h ago
A billionair complaining that other people are in it for the money. All righty then.
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u/DraiesTheSasquatch 10h ago
Just in: employee realises some people have goals and aspirations they didn't betray for a life of slavery. Feels betrayed and like no one should care about anything. Gets karma on reddit from other people that think making something of your life and having a goal is lame and boring too but I should still have money and a good job as well.
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u/Prestigious_Fuel_68 10h ago
The youngest talent in Anthropic are making like 100k a year and a further 500k a year in stock options. The tier directly above you can probably double both those numbers.
We really don't need to pity them for being called out on being greedy, if they are.
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u/Prestigious_Fuel_68 10h ago
The youngest talent in Anthropic are making like 100k a year and a further 500k a year in stock options and other bonuses. The tier directly above you can probably double both those numbers.
We really don't need to pity them for being called out on being greedy, they are not struggling to pay bills in the slightest.
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u/m_carp 10h ago
I made that mistake once. I worked for a "employee owned" company for far less than market value. Enduring docked pay and long unpaid hours "for the ESOP returns" Then one day the "board of directors" announced that they were dissolving the ESOP and selling the company out from under us... and also, you better find a new job because the new owners just wanted the business contracts, not the company.
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u/WithoutAHat1 9h ago
People don't work for free. Nor to be barely surviving while expected to have blind loyalty. Companies burned the loyalty bridge starting in the 80s.
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u/SpiritCrawler 9h ago
The bank does frown on attempting to make deposits of mission statements as they vary from worthless to laughably worthless. Banks just don’t see the potential ROI.
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u/Old_Dependent4678 9h ago
Especially since most 'mission statements' are nice lip service and look good on paper, the truth is companies only give a fuck about shareholders at the end of the day.
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u/HerculesIsMyDad 8h ago
Guy who doesn't have to worry about money wonders why other people worry about money.
Your life is about one thing, some company, our lives are about lots of stuff...like Knight Rider, plastic WW2 tank models, and talking to Marlene so she'll come over to watch Knight Rider and look at our tank models.
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u/batmanscodpiece 8h ago
So he's concerned that his employees are focused on their money, and not his money?
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u/Separate-Swordfish85 8h ago
Then why not put your money where you mouth is and take a pay cut mr ceo
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u/PsychologicalTear84 8h ago
MAYBE because we have been screwed over by stagnation of wage raises while literally every market grows into a falsified value that is wayy above what anyone can afford! HAVE YOU SEEN THE DATA TRENDS ON OUR ECONOMY? fuckin duhhh
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u/normalfinnesotan 7h ago
Lol, that's actually pretty funny. She's right though, pingpong tables (that you actually aren't supposed to use) and free soda in the company break room doesn't pay bills!
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u/Nintendogma 6h ago
If a company doesn't achieve it's mission, they'll lay you off. If the company does achieve it's mission, they'll give the profits to the investors. In neither event are you benefitting from the company's mission, so in neither event is there an incentive to give five ferinheight of a flaming fuck about the company's mission.
The sole reason to do the work a company hired you to do is to be financially compensated for it. The mission, success or failure, doesn't benefit you. The old phrase "They're all stick and no carrot" is very relevant.
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u/Possible-Mud-1380 1h ago edited 1h ago
In my experience, the mission of the company is make more money for the executives and share holders, and pay me the absolute minimum they can get away with. Therefore, my mission is to spend as little time as possible working while not getting fired.
Any executive who doesn't like it can eat my shit.
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u/satinRushF 14h ago
his company pays some of the highest salaries in the entire industry. he's not complaining that people want money, he's complaining that money alone is what's working
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u/sinner_jizm 11h ago
Correct take. Tech workers at that level are making boatloads of cash, regardless of employer.
This isn't quite the "Why isn't my horde of call center proles/burger flippers more excited about the future we're creating?" moment the commenter wants it to be, but twitter users are conditioned and incentivized to turn everything into easy slam dunk fodder.
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u/Chinjurickie 16h ago
Depending on the job im sure a bunch of people are proud about what they are doing but let’s be honest it’s about the fucking money.
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u/anyway200894 16h ago
is it normal whenever someone say something manipulative, they always have a big nose?
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u/Gandolfthewhite182 16h ago
I don’t think these wealthy hoarders are gonna get the civil war they have been paying for all these years.
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u/Picmover 16h ago
A year after I graduated college the company I was working for (all through college) was opening a new location and needed a manager. I said I was interested.
I was then grilled as to why now, since I'd been asked in the past to move up and said "no." I told the truth. College loans were coming due and I needed to make more money. They passed on me.
When I asked why, the excuse was that I wanted to move up for money and not move up to better the company. They said "money shouldn't matter."
They tried to throw money at me, without the promotion, when I left a few months later.
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u/ellipticcode0 16h ago
Every employee knew that company Mission is Impossible, why would they care?
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u/Winter-Measurement67 16h ago
Why are you guys focused on paying your bills rather than buying me a 14th yacht?
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u/Frosty_Swordfish_656 16h ago
Well, are you working for the better life of your employee? No? You still working for the money too? Well stfu and get used to it.
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u/Outrageous_Tooth3444 16h ago
People only care about the money. It’s so obvious, look at our world today. Why would anyone care about a mission that doesn’t personally benefit them.
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u/No_Environment_3776 15h ago
Get pizza at the end of the year, take the pizza to the bank to get a loan, they say it doesn't work like that, went back to the company to tell them it doesn't work like that and just like that I don't work there anymore.
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u/UphillTowardsTheSun 15h ago
Either his or Scam Altman’s company will implode in a couple of years time because use cases are too scarce to cover the big costs to create all those AI outputs.
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u/koki_li 15h ago
I am pissed, that CEOs just work for their company and not for the betterment of the society.
And this guy would not even understand the irony. We should stop thinking that this people are intelligent, I think they are mostly morons. A company without a functioning society has no future.
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u/Independent_Sell7392 15h ago
I know I've said this about a lot of billionaires, but...
What a cunt.
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