I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because nobody else ate the Hot Cheetos that were stocked in our free snack kitchen. Seaweed snacks were always empty. Nobody had those telltale…

Not sure if this is the best comm for this post, but it really hit home with me, and is getting some good discussion in my circles.

  • IlIlIlIlIlIlIl [any]
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    3 years ago

    a bootstrapping phase where workers often work for free in exchange for equity in the company

    what the actual fuck? is this common?

    • pppp1000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Unfortunately yes. You can go on Angelist and check out some of the job description.

      • spectre [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Literally a [potential] ticket to the ruling class. Still takes a ton of privilege to attempt, but it's a high risk-high reward type deal (sorry it didn't work out Porkroll). Of course it shouldn't work this way, but I definitely don't see it as a worker exploitation type thing personally.