On: “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted bu...

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I believe you. But I also assume you're not dead weight your employer would be better off without. However, dead weight is what a lot of commentators online claim to think the departed employees were--and that Basecamp cleverly rid itself of them today--without any real evidence for these bold ideas.

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You're combining like three different narratives together.