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submitted 5 days ago by Carighan@piefed.world to c/games@lemmy.world

Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! 🤮

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[-] leoj@piefed.zip 8 points 3 days ago

I wish we could band together and create a company not with the motive of profit for shareholders, but with the motive of wages for employees.

What if the goal was to hire and pay as many people as much as possible, all while creating something really neat.

How do we start this?

[-] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago

They are called co-ops. Capitalism is fundamentally broken broken, so your idea will not work at larger scales under the current system

[-] leoj@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Yeh I'm aware of employee owned and co-cooperatively owned companies, but in my experience those are often used as marketing buzzwords.

I think video game development could actually be a space where this could work, but with the saturation of indie and low effort games, a golden opportunity may have already passed.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Like some else already said co-ops and employee owned businesses. But they all require capital to start, maybe a bank could give you a business loan.

Maybe a government program that doesn't have a profit motive like the post office?

[-] leoj@piefed.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah I think a government sponsored program could actually draw a lot of votes, I know Ms. Harris briefly touched on this with her 20k for small business start ups, but its kind of off mark from what I was proposing.

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