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ramesh31 on Feb 7, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

>At some point, no amount of money is worth it.

Speak for yourself, I guess.

I would strap myself into the torture machine from Clockwork Orange for 8 hours a day if you paid me $350k to do it.

imwillofficial on Feb 7, 2022 | [–]

Have you ever made $350k?

The magic wears off fast and it doesn’t go as far as you imagine.

ericd on Feb 7, 2022 | [–]

What if you’d been an engineer at one of these sorts of companies for a while and already banked a mill? Two? Five?

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