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Nothing crazy about it if you compare to whats _required by law_ elsewhere. In the Netherlands you’ll get at least 3 months salary, possibly more if the layoffs were negotiated with a works council, an additional N months depending on your years of employment, and healthcare, well, is not tied to your job at all. Nothing extraordinary about it.


Netherlands seems to do a lot of things right, and I know the US isn't making all the right tradeoffs, but lack of safety net is one of the reasons US pay is higher.


US pay is higher because there is a bottomless pool of VC money in California, not because of onerous hiring regulations.

Discord is wildly unprofitable, it is held up entirely through investor largesse.


Things someone who has never built a company says.




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