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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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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Like... In a good way?

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