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I just don't understand why people seem to be so worked up about this. It must just hit really close to home on sites like this.

Look, I love remote working and I almost always find myself on the side of workers in any management v workers debate. But I find it very difficult to get worked up about the plight of folks who are likely making 60k+/yr. And much more if they are in a tech-focused role.

Reddit loses money. Does everyone just expect them to continue on with no changes forever? And where's the HN outrage when a factory closes down?

>>harmeg+(OP)
I don't understand whenever there is a HN article about some injustice being done to Tech Workers somewhere there inevitably be this post

> "I can't find sympathy for people making $x/yr."

Why not? Where do you draw the line of people deserving sympathy vs. those deserving none? If they made $59,999/yr would you "get worked up about their plight"? Can you point out an article on HN (ostensibly a site related to the Tech Industry, hence the posts about Tech Workers) about a factory closing down where there was explicitly no sympathy?

>>harmeg+(OP)
I just wanted to note that 60k/yr is not that much money. I think it more like 'slightly upper' middle class.

For example, the average income per person in Germany is at 41k Euro. For the US it is $51,939 per household, already adjusted for inflation.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

Oops: That's not even middle class anymore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class ?

>>harmeg+(OP)
60k a year? The median salary in the silicon valley is 80k

60k a year is making less than the average worker