Happy employees make better games. Just got done reading a piece on wowhead and bloomberg. I want my subscription fee to go to employees, not to Bobby.
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Iâve always wondered if, instead of high priced CEOâs, theyâd just have a Director of Sales position and with Co. Pres & VP could do the job of the CEO & have profit sharing for everyone, if that would work better.
I didnât write that very well so hope it makes sense.
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There isnât a job on the planet that deserves being paid that much every single year. I donât care how much âriskâ you assume. Itâs just greedy and it needs to stop.
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I agree. When I see the âwelcome new CEOâ emails, I always wonder whoâs getting the axe next.
I also wonder who that ceo is related to & how much business/connections they have with China.
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Iâve always wondered, that instead of paying a high priced CEO to be an expensive figurehead and fall guy, why donât they justâŚdistribute wages more equally?
Never made sense why a whole business has dozens of people doing the main grunt of the work and then having a sole person who just âmakes the tough callsâ earn more than all of them combined forâŚreasons 
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Capitalism damns us all.
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Iâm not even sure what a ceo does. I also donât recall one ever going to prison so what risk?
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inb4 your permabanned from forums and this thread is removed
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They pretend to take the blame for failings and get tens of millions of dollars in severance pay if they do take the fall, only to be rehired at another huge corporation for millions of dollars a year.
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Thatâs an unbalanced system. Capitalism works good if you balance it and keep monopolies from forming.
Things are changing though. I think itâs going to get better for most, not just the usual 1%.
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I think they might get fired if they lose too much money for the company, which is a much higher risk than the average employee, who might lose their home on top of their job and being all but blacklisted in the field.
So itâs either a money funnel or a really stupid thing companies do. Odd.
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What a bunch of idealistic palaver from a group of envious socialists.
Capitalism has raised people out of poverty whereas socialism has destroyed economies and put people in poverty. Case in point look at Venezuela where they are literally eating stray animals.
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Theyâre the guy at the top who makes the hard calls like âmake more moneyâ or âmake cuts to save moneyâ then sits back down in their big olâ leather chair smoking a pipe whilst someone polishes their shoes.
The cost of it all is them having their face known so that the whole world hates X for being a corporate snake instead of hating the company itself lol.
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No, itâs literally just Capitalism, especially unregulated Capitalism like exists in America, at work. Thereâs a reason so many companies refuse to be employee-owned. It removes the power from the CEOs and the ultra rich Board of Directors.
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I donât have any knowledge of the workings of businesses so I tend to not let any one article influence what I think about a company.
I do think that trying to fight the status quo on how businesses are run is a pointless fight. How could you hope to compete with the people who have the money to buy lawmakers and the media to control public opinion.
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I feel like a system that only works well when countless restraints are put on it to keep it from doing everything it, by nature, wants to do is probably not actually a good system.
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Was waiting for an uneducated troglodyte to bring up Venezuela when talking about Socialism despite the fact that all of Venezuelaâs plights can be traced back to a non-diverse export profile, importing most of their goods and the complete destabilization of South America by the United States via the overthrowing of democratically elected governments with murder squads and coups.
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If the article is not correct in calling Blizzard out then so be it, but the message is still undeniably true.
People need a living wage.
However, I suspect that this has been brewing even before the article.
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this is way WACRAFT 3 REFUNDED happened. they dont pay their emplyees enough or give them proper benifits and expect them to make cutting edge gaming