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Running a company is very hard and all I can say is that I'm trying my best and have always treated people fairly, which is not the same as being nice.

Being fair is objective. Fair for the company? Fair for the investors? Fair for the people? This tweet feels dismissive of anyone who may have been effected by you being “fair”.

The company has to remain solvent any employees to stay employed. These things are connected. I don't know enough about the details to weigh in on this case specifically, but hard choices are hard, and once you've been responsible for this sort of thing your perspective changes.

I've been in the position you're talking about and I just want to gently disagree that being responsible for a company's solvency means your perspective on what's fair for employees shifts. A big part of why I co-founded @tildeio was that I was tired of that assumption.

Look, people can start companies and run them adhereing whatever values they choose, but every institution's first imperative is to persist as an institution. I don't find it productive to criticize companies for adhereing to that imperative. I think we should expect it.

As much as I might appreciate the values people instill in their companies, I just never allow myself to believe they will adhere to them at the cost of the institution itself. I think that doing so is foolish in the world we live in and *especially* in this country.

Root of the problem is that npm have just treated their employees incredibly poorly. I don't think it's super relevant to the outrage on the first point, but the fact they instilled and made empathy such a large part of their brand makes it worse.