• steelplatedmech@piefed.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’m talking about you bringing up Uber as a positive example of a way to run a business. I don’t think you know what you are talking about if you are using Uber to defend your position. Because Uber is one of the worst examples of a good company.

    That you think it is some indie passion project is very questionable when it comes to the grasp of companies and how terrible they can be for customers and employees. Unsustainable mass corporations like Uber is what is leading to bunch of borrowed money flowing around and inflating the stock market while those at top get rich, get government subsidies, and firing their employees with all they care about being projected valuation.

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      I think that was misinterpreted. Uber is absolute trash of a company.

      I know what it’s like to be a contractor. All work and none of the benefits.

      I was trying to bring up the mess 343 was without saying it. Hundreds of “contractors” got laid off on release. There was a whole lot of tom-fuckery around that game. Microslop didn’t want to give a few hundred people a crumb of the pie.

      A lot of companies enjoy the dancing monkey in a top hat. So we’re on the same page, sorry auto correct messes up what I write sometimes.

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        Yeah, there was a misunderstanding. Uber made me think you thought it would be better if Steam started overspending and overhiring and going public, which hasn’t really worked out well for customers with the services undergoing enshitification as increasing profits every quarter becomes the goal.

        And leads to people being fired too despite record profits the previous quarter with bonuses for upper management.

        So Uber being brought up was confusing, since I hadn’t understood the angle you were going for.