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Here Are All the Game Industry CEOs Who Took a Pay Cut to Prevent Layoffs (hard-drive.net)

submitted 10 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How many times have we seen a foolish CEO cost a company 10's of millions?

And how many times have we seen them still get golden parachutes and continue to be successful in life?

They aren't the problem, but they're a symptom. It makes sense that people are angry towards them.

[–] tuckerm@supermeter.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's also the fact that the amount they make (plus business culture in general) is going to be creating and reinforcing a God complex in them. I often wonder if a lower salary for CEOs would actually result in them being better decision makers. What if their kids went to the same school as their customers' kids?

People of all political ideologies say they want their political leaders to be "in touch" with everyday people; why would we want business leaders to make so much money that they wouldn't even have to look at an everyday person if they didn't want to?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

And that's why I feel small businesses are way better than large ones. Yeah, they don't benefit from economies of scale, but they do benefit from actually caring.

I'll bet just video game CEOs have never actually played the games they make, while most indie CEOs at least play test, if not actually work on the game directly.