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There are absolutely no guarantees that any additional $ Paizo would earn by getting us to buy collector's editions would end up in boosting salaries of low-ranked employees and not towards helping Lisa Stevens complete her Star Wars museum.
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What? What does that had to do with this? I was pointing how you could help Paizo employees directly, since you seem to beleive that the it is the ethical obligation of the company and the company's costumer to care that the employees have a "comfortably livable" income.
I say "comfortably livable" because you seem to disregard people that live on livable incomes or would consider that an acceptable deal as "grasping at scraps".
Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
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There are absolutely no guarantees that any additional $ Paizo would earn by getting us to buy collector's editions would end up in boosting salaries of low-ranked employees and not towards helping Lisa Stevens complete her Star Wars museum.
I was talking about consumer budgetary constraints, pricing models, price bracketing and the price elasticity of demand. But you are right, administrative costs are practically sunken cost and not factored in pricing models. It is even the duty of any Hiring Department to hire a person best suited for the job at lowest possible salary.
Humbly,
Yawar
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Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
That's a touching story, but I lived with my wife for 9 years in a 400 sqm/38 m2 apartment and here I am, having a very different view on things than you do.
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Survivor's bias makes for a strange worldview.
It is the reality of lots of people.
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That's a touching story, but I lived with my wife for 9 years in a 400 sqm/38 m2 apartment and here I am, having a very different view on things than you do.
Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
You're coming dangerously close to admitting you have empathy. Thank goodness you're not actually Gorbacz.
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“I say "comfortably livable" because you seem to disregard people that live on livable incomes or would consider that an acceptable deal as "grasping at scraps".”
You are not more important than the employees who make the product.
Just because you had it bad up hill both ways doesn’t make it right nor does it make you a judge to deem others have to suffer.
I fail to see your point. Having to struggle and make sacrifices to make ends meet didn't reduce my dignity as human being nor I see how it would reduce other people's dignity.
Humbly,
Yawar
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"I suffered and am better for it, so everyone else should suffer too" (also if that's actually your opinion, you're not better for it, but I digress) is an opinion that far too many people take. I suffered and don't want anyone to ever suffer like I did again. I want to remove the pain and suffering from the world, and not add to it. This is very much centering other people's pain on yourself, in the same way that people argue against student loan forgiveness because they paid their own debt off.
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Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
I think most people’s issues with your take is that it mentions improving ones resume to get a better job, or being replaced by more willing employees if you don’t like your compensation. Your view is not that things should improve for Paizo employees but that Paizo upper management should just use stagnant wages as an excuse to increase employee turnover.
“You don’t like it, get out” is a very poor take.
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Saying that "if you want more money, find a better paying job" means implicitly accepting that whoever does that job should experience poverty.
If work is worth doing, the person doing it should receive enough money to live on. If a company is physically unable to pay its workers a living wage, it needs to restructure because clearly it is a failing business.
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You're coming dangerously close to admitting you have empathy. Thank goodness you're not actually Gorbacz.That's a touching story, but I lived with my wife for 9 years in a 400 sqm/38 m2 apartment and here I am, having a very different view on things than you do.
Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
Of course. I am merely a usurper, a false idol. The original would likely land some snarky hot spicy take that would get them banned and leave them none the wiser. Poor soul.
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Of course. I am merely a usurper, a false idol. The original would likely land some snarky hot spicy take that would get them banned and leave them none the wiser. Poor soul.You're coming dangerously close to admitting you have empathy. Thank goodness you're not actually Gorbacz.That's a touching story, but I lived with my wife for 9 years in a 400 sqm/38 m2 apartment and here I am, having a very different view on things than you do.
Let me tell you something, I was one of those people "grasping at scraps" a few years back. I was sharing an 800 square feet apartment with three other people. You build experience, you rise and fall, you improve your CV, and it gets better.
Humbly,
Yawar
We could take comfort in the fact that your, er, Gorbacz's hot take would at least be interesting and unique.
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While an interesting discussion, it is not so clear what the solution is. Each decision has ramifications, which impact different individuals, and which one is most acceptable depends on the person and priorities:
- Increase price? May decrease sales (and international access)
- Move Office location? May decrease cost of living, but does not work well for people with partners with local jobs
- Work from home? Good solution short term, but may eventually make it more interesting to hire from cheaper regions and counties.
Maybe there are creative solutions such as price-bracketing, but overall not an easy thing to resolve.
And happy to live in a country where the minimum wage, together with allowance for healthcare insurance, living expense etc. make the liveable wage discussions a moot point….