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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Afaik he still praises their anarchist corporate management structure. Haven't really looked into it, but if true kind of an L from a guy i really like otherwise

[-] kralk@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Because he doesn't call out their traditional centralized ownership structure, which is more important and will always "win" when it conflicts with the anarchist parts. The owners still have final say over the workers.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

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

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