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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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[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“So we’re getting pay rises, right?” Annakin.gif “Right?”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like... In a good way?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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