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This. Maybe Amazon should have hired the marketing geniuses here on HN.


Great. You are 1 out of 100,000 people that understand the metaphor.


There was no need for you to mention your company's name.


That doesn't sound like indenture. If you aren't contributing to society, you do not deserve anything. This is precisely what corporations do today and it works.


OK, I'll bite.

No, it actually doesn't work. While it does sound like a good idea in theory (tit-for-tat), in practice greedy corporations (I mean that neutrally, in the capitalist sense where corporations have a duty to extract maximum profits) have powerful incentives to shaft employees over these benefits in order to maximise shareholder value.

In an ideal scenario, companies would compete for employees, and would provide good benefits to out-offer other companies. In practice, a large part of the workforce is groveling for jobs and will accept any raw deal for some kind of income.

Oh hey, egregious example: Walmart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Walmart#Health_ins...

Or that thing that's been in the news lately: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/30/hobby-lobby-...

Or some random link from "company denies healthcare news" search: http://www.news-leader.com/story/money/2014/03/18/washington...


They care because ideas propagate.


Given the amount of data available, it is not unreasonable to expect n>1000


They obviously did not think that reasonable, their results seem to be fine, and I still don't see what the problem is with n=240.


Or the OP is just not good at what he does.


And what about the people who are paying by providing their information to Google for free? I don't see much support for them.


So don't use Google. Then you can stop whining.


"But if we're not working hard and all night, our competitors who are will end up taking our clients"


Here on HN, we would rather fully understand and rationally discuss the publishers claims rather than taking their conclusion as final word solely based on the Forbes name.


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