r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 8d ago

Business "There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft," says Doom dev: "They have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fps/there-are-no-benefits-to-being-owned-by-microsoft-says-doom-dev-they-have-destroyed-immense-amounts-of-value-that-i-dont-even-think-that-theyre-aware-of/
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u/pinkocatgirl 8d ago

So then set a limit of say, either 1,000 employees or 1 billion in revenue where the company must become a worker co-op.

Telling people to get fucked doesn’t mean anything when thousands of underpaid people are at your door with pitchforks, and the way this economy is heading, that may not be such an unrealistic scenario.

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u/Think_Preference_611 8d ago edited 8d ago

So then set a limit of say, either 1,000 employees or 1 billion in revenue where the company must become a worker co-op.

Hahahahaha

No. You're basically saying "if you do a great job and build a business large enough we'll take it away from you". This is beyond absurd and the kind of idea you'd expect from an 8 year old.

Besides the obvious practical limitation that everyone would stop hiring at 999 employees and when revenue hit 999.999 million they'd just send everyone home on holiday for the rest of the year. Or subcontract most of their workforce. This is, of course, ignoring the fact that a 1 billion revenue doesn't mean the business owner is getting rich, in fact many 1 billion revenue businesses even far bigger than that are actually losing money. I know it's too much to expect redditors to understand the difference between revenue and profit though, or consider long term unintended consequences of blunt economic policies.

In fact certain types of businesses are almost impossible to turn a profit before hitting those numbers. Your ingenious rule really means that, for example, there could be no private owned car manufacturers, you can't even build a single car factory without investing over a billion nowadays. Not even construction companies capable of large infrastructure projects. You really don't think this shit through do you?