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0 pointspembrook2y ago0 comments

You haven’t addressed any of my questions, but I’ll play along.

Im also tired of having to pay my employees a slice of my revenue every month for “making my business magically better.” Hidden salary demands, dark patterns to fire them, etc.

I own my car. I own my laptop. Why can’t I own you?

I guess what I’m saying is, why do you think the code you write for your employer deserves to be sold on a subscription model (salary) —- yet you don’t afford the same opportunity to indie developers?

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alexschnapp2y ago

Wait this doesn’t make sense. They own the code I wrote for them. The ‘subscription’ is for future updates of that code. They can keep the version and never update. If I quit they still have what I wrote.

pembrookOP2y ago

And they pay you 10,000X the cost of $3/month for the ability to own that code.

But it seems you still aren’t following the hypocrisy inherent here.

If this one time payment + ownership model is so great for everyone as you say, why aren’t you working exclusively as a project-based freelancer? Why hasn’t your employer fired you the minute you finish every project?

Is the company that hired you stupid? Are you taking advantage of them?

Or does the subscription model for software only make sense when you’re the one selling it?

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