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Elliot Bonneville

Yeah, absolutely. I guess the point is that most companies are not loyal to their employees anymore -- at least, in the software development world. If they are, it's because they're underpaying their employees and want to retain them.

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Modern HR departments, the profit motive, and the legislation & stockholders that create them, may have destroyed much of whatever of this there was, to begin with, in the name of standardizing employment relationships in the slow creep of central control of with whom and how we associate.

But the picture becomes more nuanced in smaller businesses, co-operative concerns, or early stage start-up companies, where a tighter knit brotherhood mentality is more possible.