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  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Is he? Varoufakis said that, back when he worked at valve, Newel had an "anarcho-syndicalist soul trapped in a private company" or something like that

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        Can't speak for the rest of valve but last I checked the actual developer portion of the company is run with a flat hierarchy and nobody enforces participation in projects, people work on whatever they want to work on. He does own it though.

        • Hexboare [they/them]
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          2 months ago

          Certainly elements of it but it stretches believability when he's a multi billionaire

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            2 months ago

            Maybe. Not sure how relevant it is today but this is the old "new employee handbook" that Varoufakis would have had on his first day there: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf

            Interesting read. Cool place to work tbh and as far as bosses go I do think he's on the better side regardless of the numerous criticisms I have of Valve.

      • grandepequeno [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Of course but that doesn't make him a libertarian. I'm not saying he's actually an anarcho syndicalist or whatever probably just a business guy

    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Maybe? But the guy still sold lootboxes as gambling for children, so he can't be that anti-capitalist.

      • grandepequeno [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Of course, I meant more that he's probably more of a hippie doo doo kinda guy than an ideological right-wing libertarian.

        I mean christ, look how he looks now