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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago
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A well-oiled Steam machine.
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    “So we’re getting pay rises, right?” Annakin.gif “Right?”

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      You should dive down the rabbit hole. Valve does not have a workplace like anything you’ve seen before, and the pay is just as fucked.

      EDIT: Down the rabbit hole we go

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        How much did they compensate that bald man who they installed a valve in the back of his head for the loading screen photo?

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          That guy had it easy compared to the guy that had his eyeball replaced with a valve, and after everything he sacrificed they just stopped using his picture.

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        My favourite factoid about that is that the minister of finance in Greece who was in charge during the Greek Debt Crisis was Yanis Varoufakis, the former economist-in-residence at Valve.

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            Can you expand more on why it’s an L? I have a lot of time for Varoufakis, I don’t agree with him on everything but I find him a very reasonable person.

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            Why don’t you like that? It seems to work for Valve.

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          Woah woah woah, really?

          I stumbled across a bunch of economic videos featuring him in the past. Yanis and Steam in the same sentence was never something I was expecting to see lol

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            Yeah, I’m really curious about what he did there and how it influenced both him and Steam.

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        Like… In a good way?

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          I’ve added a video link to my original comment. should clarify a bit.

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            Some people aren’t in situations where they can watch videos unfortunately (I am scrolling at work)

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