• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    “Companies have too many employees!” cries the guy who will lose his job if all companies are run like Valve.

    Them having few employees doesn’t prevent them from taking a 30% cut on all sales and making billions in profit and having a billionaire at their head, so are people expecting that if other companies were “trimming down some fat” it wouldn’t simply result in them making more profit because prices wouldn’t come down or something?

    Also, a company can pretend to have 10 employees if it instead hires 1000 contractors to do the actual work.

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      4 months ago

      Someone’s upset that they’re following their own successful business model.

      I get that people don’t like wealthy people regardless, but Gabe is probably one of the few that’s actually not bad.

      I don’t know where this contractor bullshit is coming from; if anything that should be aimed at Microsoft.

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        I don’t know where this contractor bullshit is coming from; if anything that should be aimed at Microsoft.

        TBF, Valve does hire contractors to help work on Proton and Steam OS. I have no idea what the terms and compensation are, I’m just pointing out that they do hire contractors

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        4 months ago

        There are no good billionaires, the reason they exist is because people like you and me are paying more for things than they’re truly worth, billionaires exist because of the surplus we pay.

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      4 months ago

      “Companies have too many employees!” cries the guy who will lose his job if all companies are run like Valve.

      Less wasting resources, good. Ah, you mean under capitalism.