People love looking at a figurehead and drawing the conclusion "That person is the problem!!!!!"

The problem is never just one person. Especially in this case, the problem is systematic, pervasive and the solution is utterly at odds with society as it functions today.

Now what someone does with that information is going to depend on the person. I guess my agenda comes down to wanting to direct people to the bigger picture and to stop keeping their head perpetually down staring at a person who has several masters above them pulling the strings. You can look upwards and address the source while also changing the rules that apply to the figurehead as well, no?

To pose a hypothetical: If you eliminate all CEOs everywhere all at once the rest of the executives will just step up and the board and ownership will just carry on their way. It won't fix the problem. If you make it so their comp is limited to no more than what the lowest paid person makes, you're just going to make a supreme court judge situation where the person on top will be a puppet for whoever is willing to bribe them the best in ways that are not easily tracked.

The CEO shareholders just got the lion’s share.

ftfy, target the ownership class first because they have nearly the whole pie.

average salary at msft is just about 120k. https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Microsoft-Salary

only 70% of employee cost is typically salary. So 120k was highly conservative.

How am I a bootlicker?

I know you have an agenda but anybody who knows fucking anything about american tech knows the wages aren't low like... well pretty much everywhere else. My 120k estimation of headcount costs are WAYYYYYY lower than what ziprecruiter thinks the median wage at microsoft is ($115,590). https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Microsoft-Salary

Usually about 30% of the cost of an employee are things that are not wages. So that 115kish is only 70% of the total nut, give or take.

I'm not for ludicrous senior executive pay. The real problem isn't even that though, it's the legal obligation to make as much money as possible for the ownership class. There is no obligation for employers to really do fucking anything for their employees beyond what the law mandates - and US labor laws are a fucking joke.

Realistically though, the employees total comp was probably close to 120k per person including benefits and employer taxes, otherwise people are making poverty wages. So 300m spending was required.

Friendly heads up, you can immediately 100% refund the costco membership. They have a money back guarantee on the membership, like everything else they sell.

It's disgusting that the vaccine is so expensive. Corporate greed at it's finest. Should be $5 or less given they have sold billions of doses.

I agree.

A good half measure would be giving employees a major share of all revenue a business generates and the option to buy shares to re-invest in the company for a bigger long term prospect of future earnings.

Today work is just like rent. You show up and they pay you to be there but ultimately the workers don't get a reasonable share of the fruits of their labors, only the ones who own the company benefit, and those they choose through the board of director decisions to receive disproportional compensation. It's a horrible system that only funnels wealth to the minority at the expense of the majority.

Comes down to money, like every reason every company does anything at all.

Companies need a legally binding duty to serve their employees and the greater public interest before the fiduciary duty to shareholders if you want this to change, which will never happen. If this became law the stock market and all of the wealthiest people would lose vast wealth overnight, and we know they get their share first since they run the show.

Well let's see...

They took a 40-60 hour PS1 game and tried to make three $70-$90 titles out of it. They weren't content to just remake the game in a modern engine, it had to be a trilogy full of a bunch of extra padded stuff. Because just like the Hobbit, they wanted MONEY, not to create something of great value to players.

Not to mention they waited 23 years to remake FF7 despite everybody begging for it at least as far back as the xbox 360 days, if not the ps2 days. I saw the remake as a cry for more traditional JRPGs like they had been known for and wildly successful for in the 90s.

Now they've released another main line final fantasy game in a format that is nothing like what originally made them popular. I've played it, I don't particularly enjoy it. I dropped it about half way through the story and have instead put 80 hours into Unicorn Overlord which I picked up for $40 just two months after release. A game that almost certainly has a way lower budget - and i'm not even done with it yet. I keep picking up that ps5 controller every now and then and doing a level or two before life takes over again, and each time I love it and want to keep playing. It feels more like a final fantasy game, albiet final fantasy tactics, than FFXVI feels like a final fantasy game.

I just can't help but feel like maybe a big budget and big pricetag doesn't mean quality. That stellar graphics don't always mean fun. Maybe Square needs it's own paradigm shift where they figure out how to make really cool games that are cheap with a lot of staying power without giant budgets and huge art production teams. You know, avoid the things that necessitate $210-$270 in release prices to be financially viable.

Or maybe the people who made final fantasy great in the 90s were cut from a different kind of cloth than the people who work at square today. Total shot in the dark, but i'm left questioning why they do what they do like I have now for about 18 years.

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This will trigger massive outrage when people's dead kids, parents, pets, etc suddenly appear in photos because the algorithm can't tell if someone is living or dead.

It signifies that chinese made games about chinese/buddhist mythology will be incredibly popular in China.

People go nuts for soulsclones regardless but given that this is probably the very first chinese mythology soulslike with professional production values no one should be at all surprised that it sells in China and abroad. Also the fact that it's cheaper than china than any other region on earth is certainly a factor in it's sales.

As of right now, of it's overall 354,187 steam reviews, only 14,757 are in english.

Keep in mind that the US and Western Europe combined have about a third of China's population.

Tell me about it.

They treat people like cattle because they are protecting the airplanes and the airline's liability, not the people onboard or in line to board.

If people think it's unsafe people won't pay up to fly.

I've yet to see a subscription that doesn't abuse it's customers. Time and time again predatory practices are employed by massive multibillion dollar companies like adobe, amazon, planetfitness (and all of the f'ing gym memberships..)

This is not to mention all of the predatory landlords who simply live off of the hard work of others akin to slave ownership. Primary housing shouldn't be an investment. If you want to rent a home the renters should become mandatory purchasers and get proportional equity to how much money you put in it, a system can be divised to sell shares in housing that you can sell out.

Fuck rent. Same goes for the telcos 'renting' services to us. We pay for the subsidies to put up the fiber lines anyway, why are we paying again for them? The real costs are a small fraction of what we pay.

I worry about the monthly charges every month when I check my credit card bill. I would never stop worrying about my mouse.

Are you ready for subscription level replacement parts?

It would be a shame if your scrollwheel would die every 3 months and be a $30 replacement before $10 shipping.

Replacement buttons every year or so...

They want your business forever. They can't do that for free, they need you to keep paying them regularly.