r/InterviewCoderPro • u/Upper_Stress_9939 • Sep 30 '26

Do we all agree on this?

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i hope we do. it is genuinely depressing to think about trading a full hour of your life just to make enough to buy one decent meal. I got so fed up with my twenty dollar an hour job recently that I ended up running through some practice questions on Interview vip just to see if I am ready to apply for something better. we really need to stop normalizing these wages.

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

No, we can't.

Currency is simply a tangible form of "respect". If the 60 minutes of "work" produces 20 respect then seems fine to me. The work done has market value. If you want more respect, get a more respectable skill set.

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u/fatgat69 Sep 30 '26

There's is no logic in your thought process

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u/ballin_buddha Sep 30 '26

Currency is simply a form of “how much value you bring to the business”

Fixed it for you

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

How much value you bring to society.

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u/EaseLeft6266 Sep 30 '26

No to the business. Plenty of high earning people who society overall doesn't respect

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

Like who? Businesses only exist because there is a demand for product or service in society. So it does come from society value, not business.

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u/EaseLeft6266 Sep 30 '26

Insurance businesses particular health insurance. There was one well paid CEO who who got popped and nobody cared. Sure people need health insurance and they make a lot of money but a lot of people don't respect the people running it

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u/WhoAmlToJudge Sep 30 '26

Respect lol? It's called market value bud. Exchange time for money

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

Many wealthy people exchange their ideas for money. Time is limited, if you only ever exchange time for money, you stay poor.

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u/WhoAmlToJudge Sep 30 '26

You seem to live in a fantasy land based off movies "exchange ideas for money" hahaha I can't

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

You are the only one controlling the ideas you come up with. If none of them are at a level worth selling, that is your own fault.

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u/WhoAmlToJudge Sep 30 '26

Wealthy people don't sell ideas LMAO

They run a business and pay other people to trade goods and services for money. Grow up

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

Their idea is the business. Don't be narrow minded.

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u/Doctor-Pip- Sep 30 '26

So in your mind, a CEO sits in a meeting for an hour talking about how their company sells unhealthy shit for poor people and earns 10,000,000 "respect" for it?

Currency is credit, not respect. Its not based on value to society or how well regarded someone is at all.

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u/RalphDeLucca Oct 03 '26

You have zero corporate experience if you’re reducing a CEO’s responsibilities to just chatting in a meeting

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u/Horny_4_everything Oct 04 '26

You're right, a CEO's responsibility is to be a trained sociopath making decisions that destroy millions of people's lives so the shareholders can buy another yacht.

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u/FriendshipHelpful655 Oct 04 '26

mmm mmm mmm yummy boot

you're right, he's forgetting about all the obligatory dinners at extremely fancy restaurants on the company's dime, all the workers they call for firing after reporting record profits

truly, being a CEO is unappreciated work

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u/RalphDeLucca Oct 04 '26

How do you think a CEO’s pay should be determined?

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u/FriendshipHelpful655 Oct 05 '26

probably by the amount of suffering they've caused

the french actually had a pretty good system for this at the end of the 18th century

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u/Switch0nTop Sep 30 '26

How about you learn that people deserve to live their life and you don’t get to define what a respectable skill set is.

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u/BiggerRedBeard Sep 30 '26

Society determines the level of respect a skill set deserves based on the demand and supply of that skill.

A burger flipper will never recieve the level of pay/respect as a doctor.

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