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brighter2morrow
7y ago
This is the bigger thing. "Go to the movies, buy Netflix, buy Amazon Prime" etc etc etc. There's so much more things the financially illiterate feel compelled to buy these days.
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brighter2morrow
7y ago
They're not listing all ownership of the company on the exchange, only a piece of it. There's still other, non-publicly-traded ownership valued at the rest of the 72 billion.
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brighter2morrow
7y ago
That would be illegal. US workers have right to discuss workplace conditions and can't be fired for trying to start a union. Also this is in California which has further worker protrections on top of that.
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brighter2morrow
7y ago
If the company goes bust then the workers still lose their jobs, so they do have incentives to be restrained.
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brighter2morrow
7y ago
I bet game developers would be the best positioned of all developers to unionize because the wages are so low already that it's hard for management to bring in scabs.