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[-] soloner@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Hahaha thanks for this. I really find it fascinating how bad CEOs make lemmy think all companies are bad. It makes no sense.

Blame the system maybe, I get that. But good grief we are all trying to make a living. The only way to do it is to do business. Like any system, it will be exploited, but I'm not gonna shit on private companies especially who clearly have a vision and don't need investor snobs to drive them to commit evil.

[-] RQG@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

I meant it the other way around. No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, eventually the dictator will change and you better hope there will be another benevolent one.

I personally don't think the problem is doing business. I think the problem is businesses not being democratic.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 9 months ago

Thats funny because shareholders are deeply involved in Valve, and those shareholders frequently decide which products get investment and which don't.

[-] psivchaz@reddthat.com 5 points 9 months ago

Which stockholders? Valve does have some, but it doesn't appear that they are published and are probably mostly employees since it's not publicly traded. Maybe you're saying that like game publisher stockholders from EA and such are involved in decision making at Valve? That seems plausible but it doesn't seem like they'd have a ton of power over operations, more just some negotiating power.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's not their own opinion, they're just repeating what they learned online. There's multiple valve devs being "exploited" for $250k a year, it's really tragic. They even exploit their worker by having college classes on the top of their building for their employees.

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