Not sure i follow - surely it’s not going to reduce your total comp but if company valuation say doubles over 1 year they’ll just give you half of your previous grant. So don’t think I’d call this a carrot.
In my experience RSUs are granted in a dollar amount at whatever the price of the stock is at grant time. If the stock price rises over the year, your grant value will increase. What I meant by the “carrot” is the dangling of this vesting/payday over x amount of years/quarters with no real guarantee.
I don't really wanna be part of a society that sacrifices the old and unfit at the expense of the whatever point you are trying to make. 500,000 COVID deaths across the country shouldn't be taken lightly.
I am surprised if you are taking all "scientists" as a collective group that you are focusing on early attempts to create models rather than the delivery of a vaccine (by scientists) and overall improvement of disease handling by scientists.
What powerful institutions need to save face exactly?
> I don't really wanna be part of a society that sacrifices the old and unfit at the expense of the whatever point you are trying to make.
That's an easy way to dismiss the real harm that has been done with lockdowns. If it's cost-free, of course, let's value and protect all life. But these lockdowns have a huge impact on people, too. It's a trolley problem, can we at least be honest about that?
just playing the devil's advocate. I don't support as well the idea of sacrificing the old and unfit and neither believe that "only the strong should survive", but isn't the old and unfit from today responsible for the status-quo and all the bad decisions that we took regarding research, environment and health in the last 30 years?
I don't understand this reasoning, it's such hyperbole, we are not sacrificing anyone. You are already part of a society that makes these types of tradeoffs and calculated risks all the time. We don't spend an endless amount of money on extending everyone's life at any cost. And people who are overweight and unfit have a personal responsibility as well, and can also isolate themselves, why do we have to traumatise a whole population of healthy people unnecessarily with lockdowns.
It's so unbelievable far fetched, that asymptomatic people should still transfer virus through contact surfaces and that this will in any significant way increase the infected health care professionals at the elderly peoples homes, despite them having professional equipment, and those elderly people, who are a part of the risk group, while another VERY large part of the risk group can isolate themselves, still would be enough to motivate a lockdown.
It's getting so incredibly unreasonable, everything will be impossible if you put an endless price to every second of a human life.
We could have had a hard strong lockdown in early 2020, but people like you made the arguments you're making now, and so we've had a see-saw year of restrictions being imposed and lifted, and here we are: the economy's fucked, huge numbers of people are dead, we have new variants[1] in circulation, and we're now saying "let's just kill off anyone who'd, or obese, or has diabetes, or asthma".
[1] Notice how all the worrying variants are from countries with inadequate lockdowns?
You don't know that. There are already plenty of examples of countries that have had hard lockdowns, no lockdowns and medium lockdowns, and the results are really inconclusive. The only pattern I can see is that the number of the infections is following the weather and the season, like flu viruses always do.
"huge" numbers of people are not dead, look at excessive mortality, adjusted for population, compare 15 years back. Lo and behold we have had several deadlier years.
In Germany all restrictions were lifted for six months and nothing happened, then suddenly infections went up when the weather got cold and OMG it's because we let people go out. Then we lift the restrictions slightly and now when infections go up again, following the next spell of cold weather, we are certain that it was because we let some people go to the hair dresser.
In Germany, the end-of-summer spread happened due to several factors, bad weather because autumn, lowered restrictions (as were all summer) and start of schools after the summer holidays. There is no single silver bullet to stop the spread (except maybe "prevent all contact"), but there are several factors that need to play together.
However, the lowered restrictions during German summer also had a visible effect, look at the numbers between June 2020 and August 2020 and you will see a distinct rise there. It isn't nearly as bad as in September, but it is there.
You realise that cancer kills many many times the number of people that die from corona, but we still continue to "sacrifice" those people just to have a functioning society, make profits and also just for fun, by producing cigarettes etc. How can you be part of such a society?
That's interesting, I saw that first hand in January staying the night in twin falls-idaho. It must be doing really well. Seattle where I live, not so much. Is this something you have read about before? Or just an observation?
I've read variations on it a few times. The idea is that older people who get laid off in a recession still need to get a paycheck, are willing to work for less to get something, and so end up beating out the younger people who'd normally be in these jobs just entering the workforce / doing it part-time.
You can Google around, generally there are good review sites out there (no one specifically is better than the other). I can give you a recommend for Seattle if your looking for it.
Check with your employer and see if they have EAP. Use free EAP sessions to interview enough therapists until you find one that clicks with you. I just started this journey. I was looking for an older and experienced therapist but found one who is doing Phd which might mean more evidence-based therapy. And more motivation to do good. But who knows.
