It always makes me laugh this millionaire rhetoric about “THE MISSION.” I once had a CEO who suddenly wanted us to be on call 24/7, every other week. His argument? Commitment. The importance of "the mission". Becoming a market leader, and so on.

As AlbertaTech says, “we make sparkling water.” I mean, what’s the mission? A can of sparkling water on every table? Spreading the joy of carbonated water to the world? No. You sell sparkling water because you want to make a profit. That kind of speech is just a way to hide the fact that you're trying to cut three full-time positions and make your employees work off-hours to increase margins. Or, like in this case, pay them less than the competition with the same objective.

Sam Altman might actually have a mission, turning us all into robot slaves, but that’s a whole different conversation.

Pay up mofo, or shut up.

Like the culture of OpenAI where Microsoft threatened to poach the entire staff so they caved?

so let me get this straight, do they like free markets or not ?

Says the mercenary...

Why the bible lingo?

If you aren’t accepting the highest bid then you are contributing to your gender’s wage gap in the wrong direction.

And before you make your rebuttal, if you wouldn’t accept $30,000 equivalent for your same tech job in Poland or whatever developed nation pays that low, then you have no rebuttal at all.

Poor Sama, let us play a sad song on the smallest violin.

“Poaching”? It’s called the free market.

Capitalists always hate capitalism when it comes to employees getting paid what they are worth. If the market will bear it, he should embrace it and stop whining.

"Talent" doesn't make a business successful, and paychecks aren't the reason most people switch jobs. This is like Sam announcing to the world "it sucks working for our company, don't come here".