“find a cheap place to live” Has this man been outside in the last 10 years? It’s literally the highest rent prices ever right now. There ISNT a cheap place to live
Not to mention that the actual cheapest places to live also have next to zero work opportunities for the people laid off from game companies... If it's a town small enough to have cheap rent, it probably won't use Uber that much (which doesn't pay that well anyways) and many companies only hire locally (or require you to move to their high cost cities).
@@barbarayhivjaneahl3198 When you don't have to think about your money, don't have to pay attention to the cost of what you buy, you forget what value and worth are. They really are modern dragons sitting atop their hoard of wealth. Doesn't matter if they understand how much they have or not, all they really understand is that tomorrow they will have more than they had today and if they don't get what they want they will make it everyone else's problem.
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” ― William Gibson, Count Zero
Only if you treat stupid as an excuse instead of charing the crime directly. I'm the type that won't forgive you if you fuck up while trying to help. I only care about the result. Now you better have money to fix this
People often forget that the corollary to "Never assume malice when stupidity would suffice" is "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"
Stupidity at this level of power is malicious in and of itself. This guy didn't wake up one day and say "I can't wait to shit on the poors!" He's saying this stuff because he thinks it's a reasoned take, as someone completely disconnected from working class (or even middle class) reality. That is stupidity by definition. But when this guy and people like him have so much power over the livelihoods of middle and working class people, making decisions while remaining this willfully ignorant is indistinguishable from malice.
I've been on disability for years. One of the main reasons was being severely immunocompromised. I had to start working again a few years ago because of how much rent costs, and I have been hospitalized for at leasr a few days half a dozen times from things that a "normal" person would maybe feel off for a day from. My doctor keeps telling me it's my own fault because "you can collect disability for a reason". I got around $1,300 for disability a month. Rent on a two bedroom (so, sharing with a roommate) is $2,200, which makes my rent $1,100. People with well-paying jobs have no idea what it's like to work your ass off and still have barely enough to survive.
Of course not. It would make them feel very slightly guilty for a little while, if they bothered to look at all the people they're continuously robbing and leeching off of.
A doctor blaming you for the problems the world is literally forcing you into instead of caring for your health and perhaps connecting you with some sort of advocacy group or doing anything remotely medical... well that only makes sense, that qua-doctor surely is an asset to the hospital. Who cares about the patients? Heh, not them! And not even the patients for themselves apparently... yeah, why DONT you just go live on the beach???
The 1%: “Why do poor people keep complaining about us firing them for tax purposes? Just hang out at your country club until you get back on your feet? … What”
Yes, executives and CEO got fired all the time, but they have so much money that they can just take a year-long vacation without hurting their wallets. Most employees can't afford to do that, they have to find a job right away or they can't afford to pay their next month's rent or mortgages. Executives have no idea of what it's like to be a working class.
A former colleague once had a job interview where his potential boss bragged how high his employee turnover is because for some reason that dude was so out of touch he thought it was a good thing.
I've known a few ultra-rich people as acquaintances over the years. Every single one without exception was incredibly out of touch with what it's like for regular people. Most had some variation of "being poor is a mindset." Genuinely disgusting.
I come from a wealthy family, and my parents - who _were_ poor growing up - sent me to public school, community college and raised me like a middle class family so I could get a feel of other peers and actually know what the cost of living is like. I wouldn't trade it for the world, because it makes me feel human to know I live in world everyone else lives in. These economic vampires can absolutely have the means to send their kids to public communities to get a feel for them, but at the end of the day, it's entitlement and a refusal to think.
@@TheAxeLordOfFireSo you were born into a socio-economic status you couldn't earn for yourself and think roleplaying down a class gives you perspective lol. Leftist through and through.
@armoredchip, et al, surprisingly, I have to agree with that statement, but with a caveat, namely, being lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, rich, super rich, or ultra rich, are also mindsets as well, and ALL of them are artificially created, as well as are all arbitrarily controlled, by the Luciferian Globalist Elite, including being poor. I have outlined why this is so in another post, as well as elsewhere, online.
A ceo telling people to go "spend a year at the beach" has some serious "let them eat cake" energy. P.S. I already knew Marie Antoinette didn't day that quote, yall don't gotta keep telling me lol
Funny you say that because Marie did not said that (king and queen was out of loop with regular crowd and underestimate how harsh their new taxes are). While CEO actually said that.
"Let them eat cake." Was written as satire, commenting on how far royalty is removed from the reality of the common people. I think "just hang out on the beach then." Is unironically more detached from reality than that *satirical* statement.
Remember that the Treasury Secretary of the USA, an ex banking CEO, during covid was asked "Mr Mnuchin, how long do you think that 1200 dollars should last the American people?" His response was somewhere around 10 to 12 weeks!!! These people have no idea what real life actually is and they have been rewarded for their failures since birth and all the while being treated like they are the only reason for civilization existing. The saddest quote I've come across is "the wage disparity is 3 to 6 times these days, if that number ever hits 10 times there will be riots...." Rockefeller said this and the wage disparity at its lowest these days is 600 times more than what the average employee is earning. America has become an oligarchy and the UK isn't very far behind. I wonder if the wealthy are stringy or if they will be chewy?
@@AlanWilhelm-fv7to They're doing what they can, but at the end of the day? The rich and their fanboys will be severely outnumbered. Sad that the coppos, soldiers and their trained obedience are so often reluctant to stand up to the _real_ threat to their society... the one within it, sitting at the top, taking a shit on them and everyone else.
"...Minimized the speed at which we added staff," is also a way to say 'We under-staffed because greed.' Could we please, and kindly, or not kindly, not give wealthy psychopaths the whole world? As a treat. As a lovely cool breeze through this hell.
Or better yet - revoke the rights and claims they currently hold upon said world. Just sort of limit personal property to a million dollars or so, and anything beyond that goes straight to the neediest people, to education, to pre-paid health care, and to the construction of _sensible_ new homes (i.e. not gigantic mansions). Society could be so great, if people would only stop to _think._
@@hazukichanx408 People ultimately hate thinking and want a strong figure to rule over... just like in Steve Shives's latest video: "Laziness: A Core Conservative Value". I really do believe authoritarianism is addictive to people who are 1.) lazy and 2.) cowards. It’s great for lazy people because when they hand power to an authoritarian leader, they no longer have to do any of their own thinking or feeling. It's also great for said authoritarian leader because they can make stuff happen without having to think about it, out of an entitlement or sense of pride as their yes-men fellate their every opinion. They only have to follow orders and look down at the designated out-group, because to them, when one takes responsibility for one’s own thoughts and behavior, it’s so tiring. Being informed takes work, developing sympathy and empathy for other people takes work, devising and implementing real plans to make things better takes work. The cowardice comes into play because one has to be a little bit bold in order to challenge oneself, challenge other people, or take action to improve one’s community. There is always a chance it will fail, and failure is scary. Even if it succeeds, that success means things will change, and change is also scary. So they'd sooner remain completely stagnant than actually change anything about themselves; ironic, given the whole point of capitalism is endless growth. There's a reason why Nietzsche considers stagnation the worst moral sin one can enable. Blind acceptance of unexceptional people as our leaders leads to precisely this kind of crap.
Yes, but maybe no. Some tech businesses actually hired too many people. They hired for projects that didn't exist yet, because waiting until the project was ready to start, would be too slow. They hired for projects that would never exist, because it was just as important to deprive other businesses of top talent. But yes, you're right, many many businesses simply choose to leave their teams understaffed.
'If the consumers don't buy the last game we can't make the next game,' says executive complicit in not paying people enough to afford hobbies. I have a theory: the executives and other people who like to blame young people and the like for spending too much on avocado toast and not on their industries do so because they only see young people when they're going out for their avocado toast.
"Maybe if you didn't spend hundreds of dollars a month on streaming services, ha ha!" ...Laughs the executive as he works to ensure fans of certain shows will _have to_ see it on previously disregarded streaming services, and also he's hired a psychologist to make it easier for people to forget their subscription is still running.
If you have all your eggs in one basket, it means you aren't an administrator, just incompetent. In addition, a focus on instant success and no humility to iterate means you are only trend chasing rather than innovating, which is also a sign of incompetency. Lastly, growth by mass firing means trying to offload work into whoever remains, because you haven't the guts to cut your bonuses and focus on fostering a more sustainable corporate culture. Its all signs of lazy, greedy and worthless idiots fooling themselves into thinking they contribute anything worthwhile to the company.
People really don't understand how comparatively civil "let them eat cake" actually is to modern capitalisms "trickle down theory" One's offering cake while the other is offering piss
the funny thing it was never even an offer. She legit didnt understand why they didnt ALSO have thier own cake to eat instead of the bread. It was the equivalent of saying "if they dont have pizza pops tell them to eat a sandwich" without understand they have neither.
@@Astralis42 Funny thing is, Marie Antoinette's quote was fake; There's no actual evidence she ever said anything of the sort. By contrast, Trickle Down Economics is treated as serious economic theory by people who should really know better.
@@CteCrassusThey do know better. That's why it still pitched despite the obvious flaws. If the world believes it, they can continue to skim off the top so nothing trickles down, then just explain that you gotta work harder to get more to trickle down, right into their pockets.
Trickle down theory is basically reverse Robin Hood. Take the tax money paid in by the non-wealthy majority, and instead of using it for social programs that benefit us, give it to the already wealthy. Then, as an added “bonus”, make cuts to the social programs because we can’t afford it.
All this reminds me of the writer's strike - I remember one exec being surprised that most of the writers on strike already had second jobs bc they couldn't get by on writing
Personally I thought the “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses” one was the worst. But really we’re just comparing flavours of shit at this point.
@@qwinlyn the outrage about that still kinda surprises me because like. Yeah. That's always the strategy of the business? Why are we acting like it's a new thing?
I love how the videogame industry was chugging along just fine for more than 2 decades until the exact moment where it got very profitable and wall street started taking an interest
AAA is an stock brokerage term meaning a good investment. That's why games are described with the term, because the industry was overtaken by stock brokers looking for good investments, and that's all they can understand.
I literally cannot afford the cheapest apartment I can find with a minimum wage game testing job without having to get roommates. I cannot get a second job to help pay bills because if I am not available for last minute overtime and weekends, I am in danger of my contract not being renewed. I finally got a full-time job that paid a living wage in this industry just to be randomly selected to be one of the unlucky people to be part of a wave of layoffs. Now I can’t even get an industry job because of the flood of applicants, the only non-industry jobs offers I have heard back from are minimum wage(ie well bellow a living wage) because I don’t have any non-industry experience and my whole life has gone from bad to complete shit. I hate that pursuing a job in a field that I was passionate about has left me destitute, stressed out, and miserable.
I am so sorry that this happened to you. This is not how it should be. I hope you get by and have help and lovely people in your life. It won't be like this forever, thing will change.
All hail the free market Give praise to our overlords Sacrifice yourself on the altar of short term gains Rest your head knowing your aches feed your betters
Sympathies...I haven't been able to get into programming, network, or any of the things I literally went to university and got a full degree for. It's been multiple years and I don't get offers even from min. wage jobs because they see the fancy paper and assume I'm going to leave. It's been horrible and I *feel* horrible because I am supported by friends and family while looking...again, for years...With nothing to show for it. I'm sorry you had your job ripped from you, because that's so depressing too. Hope things can work out for us...And I try to support movements that might help fix things
You know what, fine. If he thinks everyone who gets laidoff should just take a year off and go to the beach, then everyone who gets laidoff should also get a severance package equal to a full years salary.
But, but... where will the money come from? The executive's wallet? That would mean giving up almost... 0.0001% of their money, and they NEED that money. They need it to, uh... eat! (Y'know, because they eat it like in that picture.)
Here's one better: shares equal to the CEO's holdings as part of the package. Every employee you lay off reduces the percentage of the company you own.
Real. I recently started watching their videos and oh my goodness she’s so fucking funny. (I hope I got their pronouns right, pls correct me if I’m wrong)
I actually like that this Executive is so honest about their cartoonishly awful takes. At least it gives away the game and it's difficult to find fanboys defending it. I have a much larger problem with the executives like Phil Spencer who want to put on a face for the gamers and gamer press so that they can have a legion of fanboys defending their terrible actions.
You are underestimating the fanboy ability to make astronomical logical leaps and bounds they will make to land square on an executive’s dick hoping that with enough dickriding they will be rich someday too (they won’t) They’ll be here in full force soon.
Absolutely LOVE the idea of using "executive" as an insult (as in "he said some executive shit") Also Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" but it's great that the aristocracy of our age r ACTUALLY as stupid as a literal mockery of the French nobility.
Quote: "Lost your job? Just go hang out on the beach..." Me: "That _could_ just be a reasonable suggestion to take a few personal days, get a change of pace, do some healing?" Quote: "...For a year!" Me: "Right, never _fucking_ mind then, it was completely and utterly out-of-touch owner-class twattery after all!"
"Why is the forest burning when we torched it napalm. Oh well, all the burned bodies means more coal to sell, people should be happy I get more money. They haven't got a food source anymore ? They should open a supermarket or something."
It's shocking just how disconnected these execs are from the reality of most people. Is sociopathy a hard requirement for hiring them? The utter lack of empathy and common sense is just crazy. Thank fucking god for you, Steph.
It's considered advantageous among directing boards and others involved in picking executives, and antisocial personality disorders have an advantage in interviews and hiring processes.
Short answer? Yes. Long answer? Yes, because the kind of attitudes and behavioral tendencies that do well in moderb corporate politics tend to be copypasted from a list of socipathic behaviors
For all we know ai might realize long term profit and benefits for the company would be treating employees like humans and giving them actual pays that let them send money back to the economy and not just barely survive. Securing good employees, company loyalty, motivation to do better. Not just the grim specter of "will we be fired this year, regardless of results" situation
You know as much as I hate AI replacing genuine workers, AI as an executive would probably at the very least be smart enough to know how valuable a human work force is considering AI is usually just trained on content on the internet.
Y'know what, I'll take robots in a managerial position. I actively understand they will not care because they are not human, but at least we can turn them off or reprogram them.
When this news appeared on the net it was so gdamn exasperating. Especially when the usual corpo bootlickers appeared and said "he was taken out of context. That's not what he said." Except all of what he said in context was the same damn thing but in more words and even worse.
@@goldsnake90If I was stuck in my room all day letting the fumes of the mold damage my brain because I'm too busy crying about woke to do anything productive. I would be saying that too.
I refuse to refer to those people as clowns because clowns tend to be funny and joyful. These are just very bad people doing things that cause disgust in the name of infinite growth.
This is why, whatever success capitalism was and may have been, this form of late stage capitalism is a failure. The only metric we use to justify anything is the money metric. :/
I'm going to say it. This is one of the most important videos on the industry out there right now. Everyone needs to see this. What happened to the good old days, when Codemasters was David & Richard Darling working out of their bedroom? When Arcade conversions to home computers were achieved by teenagers over a matter of weeks? Why have executives and shareholders infiltrated our hobby, eating it from the inside out like fucking rat poison? Why is this shit happening to something we so love and cherish? Oh yeah. _All of the money_ That's why.
I also liked how the statement included how they should keep up with developer news or they will fall behind, while also telling them to find a cheap place to live. Like, move away to somewhere cheaper, then move back here the second an opening is available, while retaining all the knowledge a developer would need to know to be effective and efficient in the industry.
Right? Move somewhere cheap, drive a Uber (probably won't find many tours there), and ALSO make sure you don't fall behind on your dev skills or you won't be able to find another job again. Sounds just _great!_ /s
I recall seeing an article saying that CEO heads have been rolling. Of course, even the most incompetent CEO has a golden parachute which is far better than any severance package a mere worker could ever hope for.
It's not the "take the year off" for me. It's the fact that in the same statement he basically admitted that actually they won't want to hire anybody who did exactly the same thing he's telling people to do? He KNOWS they won't want to hire anybody who's been out of work a year and sitting on the beach. He seems to realize this mid-statement, so he says something about keeping up with... news? Is that what you look for in hires, Chris? People who've kept up with news? I'm a non-game dev and I'm still underemployed because of two separate rounds of COVID-related layoffs, so I'm a smidge sensitive to this, but dear lord, I've never seen a statement like this where someone made it so clear that they know they're just spouting BS before they'd even finished answering the question. Even the people who DO make the kind of money he imagines can't do what he's suggesting and get another equivalent job later. And he knows it.
People who control the video game industry thinks everyone is an "Non-playable Character". The real joke here is all of them don't even know what that means.
The kind of people who are successful in executive positions probably don’t think about the employees much at all beyond seeing them as an expendable unit to be exploited and discarded as needed.
Asking people to find a cheap place to live while being part of the class that inflates houses prices is the most moronic shit I’ve ever heard. The only innovation executives bring is how many ways they can find to excuse their uselessness.
In the 18th there's a phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette when she heard that people were dying of hunger because there was no more bread: "Let them eat cake". There are no records of her saying that, however, we have something more concrete and terrifying now, in the 21st an executive had said that those with their lives at stake should just go to the beach and wait until things gets better. It's just appaling
I am pretty sure I've read about comments during a local famine of how people just want to avoid taxes and that is why they die from hunger everywhere. But haven't been able to find any confirmation from good enough historical sources. But it probably is not a coincidence that all these point out specific things about ideology of the rich people.
@@timop6340Sounds like Charles Trevelyan during the great famine in Ireland, who closed all the soup kitchens because it was lowering the price of food. During a famine!
And even then the original apocryphal quote is "let them eat brioche" because brits didn't know what it was so they rendered it as cake (though to be fair brits do call "cake" some stuff Italians call brioche because languages are weird).
@det.bullock4461 'There are no more Baggetts left, my Queen.' 'Then let the people eat Brioche instead.' The British had a poor translation & thought Brioche was Cake. 🤷♂️
The irony is that Chris Deering is right in one respect. In a just society, normal people should be able to just take a sabbatical year to hang out on the beach and enjoy themselves thanks to a strong safety net. Though I doubt Chris Deering supports such policies.
Ugh just go to your second home in the southern hemisphere... Like what are you even doing with the millions of dollars in your annual bonus for doing nothing?
I live, survive really, on about $600 a month. I would love to see these stupid execs attempt to live for a year on $600 a month. And that's my total, that's before food, utilities, rent, that's it. $600 to spend on everything you need to survive for the month.
@@glenngriffon8032 On the one hand it's nice low income housing exists (also in it) on the other, any time you get more money 30% of it is abount to go away into your now higher rent. It's infuriating. Oh you just got an $80 a month raise from cost of living adjustments? No you didn't. $24 of that is vanishing into your rent, you get $56 dollars. Btw your food bill is up $70. ...the economics of being disabled are godawful.
Make it a TV show, they'll love the idea of being made famous, just do what that Japanese TV show did to that one dude and never let it stop. Or just keep letting them out for a week after a year just to drop them back in.
My problem with all of this "woke" complaint is that it serves to distract us from genuine issues in gaming industry such as corporate greed and the utter callous contempt for the developers and workers who spent so many hours developing a game that fails thanks to incompetent leadership who take no accountability and instead fire employees while giving themselves ridiculous bonuses and raises. In fact it's in my mind that the "forced diversity" things we see is intentionally made so corporate executives can have a scapegoat so the anger isn't directed against them.
Culture war nonsense is perpetuated by grifters because it benefits them, they don't realize the harm they're doing. Rage and drama is monetizable and is very profitable, that's all that matters to them.
Yep, basically. It's smoke screen. We can use this to hide or blame the real crap we are doing. The same thing happens when any questionable law or such happens. Always some scandal or weird take to distract the masses while the real issue is pushed through.
@@allengordon6929 Core issue? It's an issue that doesn't actually exist. None of this "woke" nonsense is real. It's all hallucinated, made up boogeymen to keep people leashed like dogs. Let's just imagine nobody cared about it for a sec and we tackled the elephant in the room. Surely, since we're in a civilized society, we can just eventually, maybe in 10-15 years as fast as the legal system moves, vote out all the useless rich people out of power, ain't that right? Isn't that what we all collectively agree on? Assuming that the legal system is even functional in North America.
imagine being so far out of touch that you think of covid as a vacation... And think of getting fired as a vacation. I have been unemployed due to disability for years and at no point did i think of any of it as a vacation....
Our daughter can't keep employment due to her disability and it's just sick that this is the measure by which people are decided worthy of living or not
@@debbiemitchell6055 yeah.. Like i've tried my best for a decade at finding and keeping a job. But it just never worked out. Now i am deemed a failure by not only society but most hurtfully by my friends and family who have all given up on me. Every time i get in an argument and it gets heated i just get called lazy.... I've had a literal mental breakdown and spend 4 months in the hospital on suicide watch but they don't care... Because i don't have a job and therefore am a parasite.
Yep it's actually extremely depressing in my experience. Not having that routine, not getting out enough, meeting new people etc. Very lonely. Some days I just didn't get out of bed or didn't eat for 2 or 3 days.
The other day, I saw 2 jobs from the same company back to back. One was for a programmer. The other was a manager for a programming team. The lower end for the manager salary is just above the higher end for the programmer's. So they're like, "the person that manages the people that makes the thing should make more than the people making the thing."... How does that make sense? Like, you wouldn't feed more power into the steering than you would the wheels. You wouldn't feed more power into the router than you would the actual data lines. I don't know why companies think the managers should get all the credit for the workers they manage.
Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project. And that is truly not easy, it's a skill that can and must be learned. On top of that, a manager should have experience with the work they're managing, because one of the key duties of a manager is communicating across responsibilities and departments. One can't do that without properly understanding the state of the project and what needs to be done to complete it. They can't relay issues and problems and get others to start working on a fix without at least a workable understanding of what the issue or problem even is, and if the proposed solution is going to rectify it. This requires a lot of experience, and that experience should be compensated well. I started this comment with the word "unfortunately" because regular viewers of Steph know all too well that upper management has perverted every part of the above description in its favour.
@@Beremor And isn't that the really sad thing? If you need a manager in a group to make sure the group project is going forward in a reasonable manner, then said managers need to be fairly compensated for the work. But because of corporate management beliefs, the very concept of management is becoming tainted over time.
@@Beremor "Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project. And that is truly not easy, it's a skill that can and must be learned." Except, that's what daily scrums are for. We have kanban boards that track all of that. The team lead (which I've been) also keeps track of that. "On top of that, a manager should have experience with the work they're managing," Yeah, no. I've never met a manager of a programming team that has experience, much less a degree, in computer science. I had one that lied to me about it, but when you ask questions like "What's the difference between a repository and an account group?", it's pretty obvious where their expertise lie. None of my programming peers have also ever had a manager that knows anything about programing. "What if their expertise isn't in programming, but the project?" I hear you ask. That's what SME's are for (subject matter experts). And they, while often being stakeholders, should NOT direct the project as the point of doing the programming project is to do something DIFFERENT than what they've been doing things. And that's ignoring the fact that, often, the SME are experts in the thing that the project is being built for, not the programming side. "...because one of the key duties of a manager is communicating across responsibilities and departments." And yet, how often do we hear people like Elon Musk talk completely out of his a*s about how things run in his company? That kind of duties is almost always filled with lies, ignorance and, as I mentioned before, the manager taking credit. This is why so many managers go "We don't need programmers, we can do this ourselves." And then f*cking royal when making the actual program. And that's ignoring the fact most of them oversell on what the team is capable of doing just to impress the bosses. Otherwise known as lying. Which, last I check is not a skill but a failure at communication. Also fraud, but you know. "One can't do that without properly understanding the state of the project and what needs to be done to complete it." Yeah, most managers get an understanding of the state of the project by going to the team lead and going "Hey, where are we now and how long do you need?" Or, just a wild idea, looking at the kanban board because that's what it's for. "They can't relay issues and problems and get others to start working on a fix without at least a workable understanding of what the issue or problem even is, and if the proposed solution is going to rectify it." Right, because programmers, when we run into problems, sit on our hands and wait on managers to contact another team for a solution. No dude, we just go to that team and go "Hey, I'm running into this. What do you suggest?" "This requires a lot of experience, and that experience should be compensated well." So, the management skill requires more experience and education than us, who have a friggin SCIENCE degree? And hence need more compensation that the person who can LITERALLY wire his own circuit board and then PROGRAM for said circuit board? Than the person doing the actual work? I literally had to learn rudimentary EE, linear algebra, ON TOP of intel ASM, data structures, discrete math, a smattering of languages (I probably know about 8~9 programming languages to varying degrees of aptitude) AND I lead a team just fine with a manager that was like (and this is the best manager I've ever had), "Hey, you got this right? If you have any problems, tap me on the shoulder." The sh*t managers were the ones that were like "I have x years of experience in handling y people teams?!? Why couldn't have you built this for me 2 week prior to you finishing the project ahead of time?!?" (This is barely an exaggeration. I literally had a manager yell at me for not finishing sooner than 2 days BEFORE the deadline.) If you STILL think this is a valid argument, consider this. Without a manager, I've built entire products that's ready for commercialization. A manager without programmers have products to sell.
@@sleepingkirby Thanks for the elaborate response! "I've never met a manager of a programming team that has experience, much less a degree, in computer science." And that's part of the problem, isn't it? Something something failing upwards, something something Peter principle. I wrote 'should' in the exact sentence you're quoting for this reason. They *should* have an idea about the work they're managing (they needn't be experts, but they should understand an issue when explained by a professional), but so very commonly they have no clue about anything other than setting deadlines. I also agree that SMEs shouldn't have a say in programming for the same reason a doctor shouldn't manage a hospital construction site. "And yet, how often do we hear people like Elon Musk talk completely out of his a*s about how things run in his company?" You did read the final sentence of my comment, yes? You're preaching to the choir. "No dude, we just go to that team and go "Hey, I'm running into this. What do you suggest?"" Cross-team and -department communication is a skill. I'm absolutely not doubting your abilities nor that of your colleagues - I hope you're folks who can explain your work well to people who aren't deep in the weeds and translate the answers of an expert on a completely different subject matter to something you can improve your own work with. My point is that on large projects with lots of people working together on wildly disparate parts, it can be challenging for people to communicate across different areas of expertise. For instance, in World of Tanks, every single tank is going to require the input of a SME, artists, programmers and game designers. Tanks in World of Tanks are sort of a big deal, so reasonably, one would want to make sure that each tank feels as good to play as possible, which means satisfying the wildly diverse interests of each of those four groups. It pays to have someone with *a workable bit of professional knowledge* in all four fields to communicate with each and keep a bird's eye view of development progress. Again, I'm not discrediting your skills or those of your colleagues. I'm also not saying the kanban board doesn't work. But adhering to prior planning will only get you so far. It's entirely possible to plan out a project in advance, stick to that plan and realize very late in development that nobody considered how boss fights should work or integrate into the game, as happened with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Would have been lovely to have someone competent at the intersection of writing, combat systems and game design to catch that minor oversight so a crucial part of the game wouldn't have to be outsourced to G.R.I.P. at the last minute, no? "So, the management skill requires more experience and education than us, who have a friggin SCIENCE degree?" From the rest of that paragraph, I'll hazard a guess that there were at least a few times in your professional career that you would have liked to have a superior to talk to about some important, but also highly technical problem you're facing. Particularly early on when you *didn't* have that breadth and depth of knowledge and encountered problems you didn't readily have a roadmap for solving. "Without a manager, I've built entire products that's ready for commercialization." I never claimed that's impossible. Please, re-read my comment: "Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. [... I say] "unfortunately" because regular viewers of Steph know all too well that upper management has perverted every part of the above description in its favour." "Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project." Do you think Baldur's Gate 3 could be made with no managers - just a collaborative effort between artists, actors, programmers and designers? Do you think all you need to build a Volvo XC40 and get it street legal in Europe is a factory full of engineers and parts and a few people to take care of the paperwork? I argue that such insular thinking leads to games like Final Fantasy 14's original release - a game where QA and localisers(!) were the first people to notice just how bad it actually was. And I wish more projects had better managers. In case my stance *still* isn't clear to you: People like Elon Musk, Bobby Kotick, J. Allen Brack, Chris Deering, Todd Howard, Jeff Bezos, whoever else is comparable to them and whoever else aspires to be like them are a superfluous waste of time and leech to their industries and professions. I resent them for the fact that they've taken humanity's tendency towards hierarchy, smuggled themselves on the top and use their positions as retroactive justification for their presence. I abhor each and every self-important worm taking credit from hard-working people to secure their own position at the cost of the people they took credit from, and I hate the fact that I think the importance they ascribe themselves (and utterly fail to live up to while wildly overpaying said importance) was once rooted in reality and reason.
"Just hang out on a beach for a year" - yeah if you make tens of millions a year you could have that luxury. The real world (the rest of us) don't have such luxuries.
But beaches are free, are they really that good? Maybe I'm confused because I live in the UK which is tiny and we have beaches most directions within an hour of us. Good for finding fossils though.
@@jingbot1071 I do, practically, my dad moved us. Still as isolating as the middle of the countryside, I don't see the point. Especially since it's cold and wet here most of the time. What's the rich dude promoting it for?
@@Roadent1241 Imagine living somewhere public for longer than a night and NOT getting arrested and made to work in the prison industrial complex... Ah, life outside America.
11:29 "I've certainly cracked a lot of eggs." How the hell are OMELETS relevant right now!? See, this is where the point where _I_ would've bragged about the number of people whom you've helped come to terms with their gender identity (myself included). Frankly, your culinary prowess is a lot less impressive than that. Weird flex, sis. /s
Ah, clearly you've missed the reference. You see, in this context, the eggs being broken are not the kind you use for omelettes. They are for cookie making, and cake baking. Stephanie is bragging about her baking skills, and not just her ability to stuff an egg and flip it over before putting it in her mouth.
Interesting. I’m more familiar with the Peter Principle: people keep getting promoted until they reach a level where they’re incompetent, then get stuck there due to their lack of performance.
Like most of Canada, Nova Scotia has a serious shortage of doctors and subsequently some pretty major issues with the health care system. Our current Conservative premier ran on a platform of improving health care (which anyone with half a brain raised some eyebrows at because the only solution is to spend more money on it and that's not exactly the Conservative way), which has been a colossal failure in pretty much every way. To be fair, part of the issue is that we've seen a significant influx of people from other parts of Canada since Covid, fuelled by the shift to remote work meaning people with higher-paying jobs from elsewhere in the country can now come live somewhere with nicer scenery (though he's 100% been pushing for that migration to pull in a larger tax base), but when pressed on the fact that more people than ever are without a family doctor, Mr. Houston's response was something to the effect of "well then the people moving here should have brought their doctors with them." It wasn't exactly a secret that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth (his previous career was helping billionaires shelter their money in offshore tax havens, most of the people he's given positions of power to are personal friends that stand to profit from it, and he's rolled out the typical "minimum wage jobs aren't real jobs" sort of rhetoric on many occasions), but that line in particular really struck home just how hideously out of touch he is with basic reality. To think that a meaningful number of people have the option of simply bringing a well-paid professional with them (a well-paid professional that will have no difficulty finding new work anywhere else in the country if they want to, no less) when they move to a new province is just so unfathomably stupid. Surprising nobody, the only "improvements" he's made to health care are to spend $10 million on an app that just links to websites that already existed (and barely work), and just recently he announced a plan to spend $45 million exploring ways to use Google Cloud Services and AI to "improve health care" in some exceptionally dubious ways. In every regard, he's played the role of a clueless executive glomping on to buzzwords and bandwagons without understanding any of the actual issues he assumed would be so easy to solve, thanks to spending his entire life without ever actually having to solve any real problems.
Thank god for you 🙌🏼 thank you for continuing to shine a light on this ignorant bs, with shit this garbo it helps to not feel alone while you’re dealing with it
People say that Marie Antoinette cake thing was more of a made up thing for the sake of propaganda that no one would ever be so clueless as to say something like that. Yea i am beginning to think rich people can actually be this clueless.
I really appreciate you putting these people's names in the video description. It's critically important search engines know this video is about Former Sony Europe CEO Chris Deering and will be relevant to people searching for him.
Why would an industry learn anything if the people in charge never face consequences for their crap? If you give a dog a treat every time it pees on your carpet it's not going to stop peeing on your carpet, is it?
@@randomstuff-qu7sh Then their customers also need to be their shareholders. Which is a bit tricky, as most of them don't live in the same country as the market they're listed on, and it's not exactly easy to get into share trading, let alone international trading.
Or maybe all execs should realise that shoving us down further into poverty means we'll never be able to afford their damned products in the first place.
Remember Nintendo boss had to step down because the Wii U didn’t make as much money as the shareholders expected - even though it was profitable - share price went down. People got sacked.
People keep bringing up Iwata taking a pay cut in response to problems with Nintendo profits, but what a lot of people don't mention is that like...that wasn't done out of the goodness of his heart, it was because of Japanese employment law meaning that the company leadership has to face some kind of punishment BEFORE they take the step of laying people off. This isn't just an industry issue, this is a governmental issue: unless these executives are forced to do the right thing, as long as perpetuating evil is the cheaper option, they won't DO the right thing.
I seem to recall certain analysts stating that the wealth gap we are currently seeing in the world today is at a level that has not been seen since the time of the pharaohs. I think I’m starting to believe that.
I see two reasons for managers handling these situation so god awful: 1. They are truly detached to other people related to work and cannot properly relate to them money wise. 2. They are not being paid to handle those well or to relate to common people.
1. Holy hell, that makeup is STUNNING 😍 2. You ask what qualifications do these turds have? The only qualification that matters to shareholders, of course. The ability to make big numbers go up, no matter the cost. It was never about the games for them, they just saw a burgeoning market back in the late nineties and latched on like parasites. 3. So, is it time for us to go all A Bug's Life on the grasshopper execs, yet?
I once asked our main manager and VP if we could get back the scheduled time we used to have to read our emails at the start of the day, quite often I had over twenty emails threads/escalations to deal with at the start of a day. I asked for this as we used to have it for years then they simply removed it, they justified it because some people were abusing it and they felt we didn't need it anymore, the reply was so idiotic I have no words. It boiled down to "I don't get tasked time to read my emails each day"....but that's your entire job and position? You don't have a schedule of tasks like we did, I was working in Customer Support where we were minutely scheduled for tasks each day, and any email time I took was "dead time" basically because it wasn't Customer facing. It fucking sucked. Also, the reply to complaints about the cost of living was "get another job then" as well. Really A Class management! Executives suck full stop, they are the ones costing money and need to be bought to task for their failures, but they never are, they simply blame it on underlings, they can't do anything wrong as executives right? RIGHT?! Most Game Company Shareholders don't even understand the business they invest in or care about the optics (usually), as long as the gravy train keeps on rolling.
The minute I saw the article I knew I was looking forward to a good video on Monday. "If money isn't coming in from the previous game we can't justify keeping developers on for the next game." It's not like inflation has gotten so bad that people have to be extremely picky about the games they buy year after year and if your game is a shitty live service (when games like Baldur's Gate 3 that actually respect the player base exist) we won't want to spend money on it.
On a more positive note, Uber and Lyft are now required (as of August 15th I think) to pay $32.50/hr in Massachusetts after the employees won their lawsuit at the end of June.
6:46 Huh?? If they don't "spend the money for the next game" then there won't **be** any money because making games is where the money comes from, what business does he think he's in??
These money people in the tech sector don't understand that everything they enjoy requires effort from others in society. I'm all for being an ungrateful so and so, but when you're handed the top echelon of society and it's STILL not enough? These people need I don't even know what kind of treatment
Just more reasons to *Socialize* the games industry. - More Unions - More independent studios, FOSS and public options - more consumer rights protections and regulations.
I hate to break it to you babe: People within the industry that actually care about the artform of Videogames and the consumers that also understand that art can exist within things most consider to be toys know EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE.
If only executive incompetence was confined to the Games Industry. Working in the Environmental field is equally mad. Somebody should do a video about that. Here that's an idea! Love the anger, there's too many willing to sit back and complain with no understanding. anyway, great video!
"Go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year" Won't you come with us, Mr. Deering? We'll find you a nice lovely short pier to take a long walk on.
I've been saying it for a while now, but people really need to look up Georges Besse, particularly what happened to him when he pulled something very similar.
Short version from Wikipedia for those even lazier than I: He was CEO of Renauld, laid off a bunch of people, then got assassinated for it by an anarchist group.
@@luccaladinig2783 If only Americans would use their right to bear arms to do some of this instead of harassing non-cishetmaleChristianabledneurotypicalmales for existing.
"Let them eat cake" is civil by modern standards. Also literally happening. But I like my ho hos. I don't like being "trickled down" on. Like what the actual fuck. How is that not 10x more offensive.
As someone who was made redundant in Jan this year, and took 6 months to get back into a job similar to my previous one (not in the gaming industry), this kind of sentiment is offensive and disgusting. Thank you Steph for pointing out these horrible statements - still loving the Podquisition weekly!
@16:18 Number Monkeys might have zero social ability, but at least they legitimately obsess over what makes 'number go up.' Gaming executives can't even do that; they just get scared and confused when the thing they get others to make fails, and then they blame us, ignorant to their own inability to design an actual product.
“find a cheap place to live” Has this man been outside in the last 10 years? It’s literally the highest rent prices ever right now. There ISNT a cheap place to live
Not to mention that the actual cheapest places to live also have next to zero work opportunities for the people laid off from game companies... If it's a town small enough to have cheap rent, it probably won't use Uber that much (which doesn't pay that well anyways) and many companies only hire locally (or require you to move to their high cost cities).
It’s more insidious than that. He thinks the prices ARE cheap. He is so rich that anything less then a million for a house or 100k for rent is cheap
@@tyrus1235they also have little work opportunities for people in general
@@barbarayhivjaneahl3198 When you don't have to think about your money, don't have to pay attention to the cost of what you buy, you forget what value and worth are.
They really are modern dragons sitting atop their hoard of wealth. Doesn't matter if they understand how much they have or not, all they really understand is that tomorrow they will have more than they had today and if they don't get what they want they will make it everyone else's problem.
Add to that the fact that they’re trying to criminalize being homeless now, and it gets even more egregious. 😤
'If the peasants can't afford bread, then they should buy cake instead'
-Executive Cant
The billioners is the most evil
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” ― William Gibson, Count Zero
If the executive class wants to talk like the French Aristocracy, I suggest some French solutions
French here, i'm pretty sure we still got the blueprint somewhere....
@@Valivictus could do with that in a few other countries too.
Pretty much what I was thinking.
The parallels are lost on those fools naturally.
Careful or they'll put you on a 'watch list'. Don't you know that the executive class are the poor victims here...
If this kind of thing happens quickly, the populists don't have time to accelerate things into full blown facism. Just thinking this out loud a bit...
The problem with attributing something to stupidity over malice is that it lets people get away with seriously malicious shit.
Only if you treat stupid as an excuse instead of charing the crime directly. I'm the type that won't forgive you if you fuck up while trying to help. I only care about the result. Now you better have money to fix this
ignorance excuses no one
People often forget that the corollary to "Never assume malice when stupidity would suffice" is "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"
@@MC-lm7de oh thanks
Stupidity at this level of power is malicious in and of itself. This guy didn't wake up one day and say "I can't wait to shit on the poors!" He's saying this stuff because he thinks it's a reasoned take, as someone completely disconnected from working class (or even middle class) reality. That is stupidity by definition. But when this guy and people like him have so much power over the livelihoods of middle and working class people, making decisions while remaining this willfully ignorant is indistinguishable from malice.
I've been on disability for years. One of the main reasons was being severely immunocompromised. I had to start working again a few years ago because of how much rent costs, and I have been hospitalized for at leasr a few days half a dozen times from things that a "normal" person would maybe feel off for a day from.
My doctor keeps telling me it's my own fault because "you can collect disability for a reason". I got around $1,300 for disability a month. Rent on a two bedroom (so, sharing with a roommate) is $2,200, which makes my rent $1,100.
People with well-paying jobs have no idea what it's like to work your ass off and still have barely enough to survive.
Of course not. It would make them feel very slightly guilty for a little while, if they bothered to look at all the people they're continuously robbing and leeching off of.
A doctor blaming you for the problems the world is literally forcing you into instead of caring for your health and perhaps connecting you with some sort of advocacy group or doing anything remotely medical... well that only makes sense, that qua-doctor surely is an asset to the hospital.
Who cares about the patients? Heh, not them! And not even the patients for themselves apparently... yeah, why DONT you just go live on the beach???
That sounds like a disappointingly callous doctor 😢
My condolences
@@qelgrun Someone saying what that assface said isn't a doctor in my eyes lol. OP should try to find another if they can.
The 1%: “Why do poor people keep complaining about us firing them for tax purposes? Just hang out at your country club until you get back on your feet? … What”
What do you mean you cant afford food? Just get your personal chef to bring you something, duh.
Meanwhile, boomers:
"Just don't buy avocados and lattes for a month and buy a house for the money you save!"
@@lobstrosity7163 “Now pardon me, the senator is waiting for me for mimosas and horse breeding at my mansion.”
It's like he found out the Marie Antoinette quote about cake was fake and decided he had to make a real one
@@CanIswearinmyhandle I know right? 🙄🙄🙄
I mean at this point i'm not even surprised. The executive class ARE removed that far from the reality they're creating for their poor employees.
we had a meeting with the hotel at my job dude is a sociopath
Yes, executives and CEO got fired all the time, but they have so much money that they can just take a year-long vacation without hurting their wallets. Most employees can't afford to do that, they have to find a job right away or they can't afford to pay their next month's rent or mortgages. Executives have no idea of what it's like to be a working class.
@bleh329 he laid half the people off then got mad when most people quit lol now were short staffed and he does not know why
@@mickeyg7219 Plus, they normally get a massive injection of cash into their banks when they do get fired.
A former colleague once had a job interview where his potential boss bragged how high his employee turnover is because for some reason that dude was so out of touch he thought it was a good thing.
I've known a few ultra-rich people as acquaintances over the years. Every single one without exception was incredibly out of touch with what it's like for regular people. Most had some variation of "being poor is a mindset." Genuinely disgusting.
Well, they are rich only because of their own merits, OBVIOUSLY, so of course it must be the same for poor people...
I come from a wealthy family, and my parents - who _were_ poor growing up - sent me to public school, community college and raised me like a middle class family so I could get a feel of other peers and actually know what the cost of living is like. I wouldn't trade it for the world, because it makes me feel human to know I live in world everyone else lives in.
These economic vampires can absolutely have the means to send their kids to public communities to get a feel for them, but at the end of the day, it's entitlement and a refusal to think.
For someone with the advantages and opportunities that they likely had that enabled them to get that wealthy, they're probably not wrong.
@@TheAxeLordOfFireSo you were born into a socio-economic status you couldn't earn for yourself and think roleplaying down a class gives you perspective lol. Leftist through and through.
@armoredchip, et al, surprisingly, I have to agree with that statement, but with a caveat, namely, being lower middle class, middle class, upper middle class, rich, super rich, or ultra rich, are also mindsets as well, and ALL of them are artificially created, as well as are all arbitrarily controlled, by the Luciferian Globalist Elite, including being poor. I have outlined why this is so in another post, as well as elsewhere, online.
A ceo telling people to go "spend a year at the beach" has some serious "let them eat cake" energy.
P.S. I already knew Marie Antoinette didn't day that quote, yall don't gotta keep telling me lol
Also had "It's one banana, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?" vibes.
And the response should be the same.
Even Marie Antoinette had the good sense not to say that. It was a later slander.
@@carlost856
Yeah like. Modern execs are somehow *worse* than french aristocrats who owned living doll-villages in their backyard for fun.
Funny you say that because Marie did not said that (king and queen was out of loop with regular crowd and underestimate how harsh their new taxes are). While CEO actually said that.
"Let them eat cake." Was written as satire, commenting on how far royalty is removed from the reality of the common people.
I think "just hang out on the beach then." Is unironically more detached from reality than that *satirical* statement.
Remember that the Treasury Secretary of the USA, an ex banking CEO, during covid was asked "Mr Mnuchin, how long do you think that 1200 dollars should last the American people?" His response was somewhere around 10 to 12 weeks!!! These people have no idea what real life actually is and they have been rewarded for their failures since birth and all the while being treated like they are the only reason for civilization existing. The saddest quote I've come across is "the wage disparity is 3 to 6 times these days, if that number ever hits 10 times there will be riots...." Rockefeller said this and the wage disparity at its lowest these days is 600 times more than what the average employee is earning. America has become an oligarchy and the UK isn't very far behind. I wonder if the wealthy are stringy or if they will be chewy?
Unfortunately you’ll need to eat their defenders first. And sadly, they seem to have developed quite a cult.
@@AlanWilhelm-fv7to They're doing what they can, but at the end of the day? The rich and their fanboys will be severely outnumbered. Sad that the coppos, soldiers and their trained obedience are so often reluctant to stand up to the _real_ threat to their society... the one within it, sitting at the top, taking a shit on them and everyone else.
Crunchy if you deep fry
@@hayuseen6683 Mmm, tasty.
@@AlanWilhelm-fv7to , go the BFG 9000 route and you avoid the problem.
"...Minimized the speed at which we added staff," is also a way to say 'We under-staffed because greed.'
Could we please, and kindly, or not kindly, not give wealthy psychopaths the whole world? As a treat. As a lovely cool breeze through this hell.
Or better yet - revoke the rights and claims they currently hold upon said world. Just sort of limit personal property to a million dollars or so, and anything beyond that goes straight to the neediest people, to education, to pre-paid health care, and to the construction of _sensible_ new homes (i.e. not gigantic mansions).
Society could be so great, if people would only stop to _think._
@@hazukichanx408 People ultimately hate thinking and want a strong figure to rule over... just like in Steve Shives's latest video: "Laziness: A Core Conservative Value". I really do believe authoritarianism is addictive to people who are 1.) lazy and 2.) cowards.
It’s great for lazy people because when they hand power to an authoritarian leader, they no longer have to do any of their own thinking or feeling. It's also great for said authoritarian leader because they can make stuff happen without having to think about it, out of an entitlement or sense of pride as their yes-men fellate their every opinion. They only have to follow orders and look down at the designated out-group, because to them, when one takes responsibility for one’s own thoughts and behavior, it’s so tiring. Being informed takes work, developing sympathy and empathy for other people takes work, devising and implementing real plans to make things better takes work.
The cowardice comes into play because one has to be a little bit bold in order to challenge oneself, challenge other people, or take action to improve one’s community. There is always a chance it will fail, and failure is scary. Even if it succeeds, that success means things will change, and change is also scary. So they'd sooner remain completely stagnant than actually change anything about themselves; ironic, given the whole point of capitalism is endless growth.
There's a reason why Nietzsche considers stagnation the worst moral sin one can enable. Blind acceptance of unexceptional people as our leaders leads to precisely this kind of crap.
Yes, but maybe no. Some tech businesses actually hired too many people.
They hired for projects that didn't exist yet, because waiting until the project was ready to start, would be too slow.
They hired for projects that would never exist, because it was just as important to deprive other businesses of top talent.
But yes, you're right, many many businesses simply choose to leave their teams understaffed.
@@OriginalPiMan I knew I was saying, "is also," for one particular 'um actually'. You are it. Congratulations.
Don't loop us in with them!
Jokes aside dealing with psychosis also is no joke! Please find a new insult, sorry if this sounded rude
'If the consumers don't buy the last game we can't make the next game,' says executive complicit in not paying people enough to afford hobbies.
I have a theory: the executives and other people who like to blame young people and the like for spending too much on avocado toast and not on their industries do so because they only see young people when they're going out for their avocado toast.
"Maybe if you didn't spend hundreds of dollars a month on streaming services, ha ha!"
...Laughs the executive as he works to ensure fans of certain shows will _have to_ see it on previously disregarded streaming services, and also he's hired a psychologist to make it easier for people to forget their subscription is still running.
If you have all your eggs in one basket, it means you aren't an administrator, just incompetent. In addition, a focus on instant success and no humility to iterate means you are only trend chasing rather than innovating, which is also a sign of incompetency.
Lastly, growth by mass firing means trying to offload work into whoever remains, because you haven't the guts to cut your bonuses and focus on fostering a more sustainable corporate culture. Its all signs of lazy, greedy and worthless idiots fooling themselves into thinking they contribute anything worthwhile to the company.
People really don't understand how comparatively civil "let them eat cake" actually is to modern capitalisms "trickle down theory"
One's offering cake while the other is offering piss
the funny thing it was never even an offer. She legit didnt understand why they didnt ALSO have thier own cake to eat instead of the bread. It was the equivalent of saying "if they dont have pizza pops tell them to eat a sandwich" without understand they have neither.
@@Astralis42 Funny thing is, Marie Antoinette's quote was fake; There's no actual evidence she ever said anything of the sort. By contrast, Trickle Down Economics is treated as serious economic theory by people who should really know better.
@@CteCrassusThey do know better. That's why it still pitched despite the obvious flaws. If the world believes it, they can continue to skim off the top so nothing trickles down, then just explain that you gotta work harder to get more to trickle down, right into their pockets.
Trickle down theory is basically reverse Robin Hood. Take the tax money paid in by the non-wealthy majority, and instead of using it for social programs that benefit us, give it to the already wealthy. Then, as an added “bonus”, make cuts to the social programs because we can’t afford it.
It's funny how trickle down is seen when the economy is directly designed as trickle up, that's what profit is.
All this reminds me of the writer's strike - I remember one exec being surprised that most of the writers on strike already had second jobs bc they couldn't get by on writing
Personally I thought the “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses” one was the worst. But really we’re just comparing flavours of shit at this point.
@@qwinlynthe wild thing with that part was how many of them didn't get paid enough that being on strike affected their bottom line at all
@@qwinlyn the outrage about that still kinda surprises me because like. Yeah. That's always the strategy of the business? Why are we acting like it's a new thing?
I love how the videogame industry was chugging along just fine for more than 2 decades until the exact moment where it got very profitable and wall street started taking an interest
I blame Call of Duty and Madden. Those are the games that broke containment and it has all been downhill since.
@@piedpiper1185 WoW too
AAA is an stock brokerage term meaning a good investment. That's why games are described with the term, because the industry was overtaken by stock brokers looking for good investments, and that's all they can understand.
@@piedpiper1185Way to blame black people!
@@lobstrosity7163 ...what?
I literally cannot afford the cheapest apartment I can find with a minimum wage game testing job without having to get roommates. I cannot get a second job to help pay bills because if I am not available for last minute overtime and weekends, I am in danger of my contract not being renewed. I finally got a full-time job that paid a living wage in this industry just to be randomly selected to be one of the unlucky people to be part of a wave of layoffs. Now I can’t even get an industry job because of the flood of applicants, the only non-industry jobs offers I have heard back from are minimum wage(ie well bellow a living wage) because I don’t have any non-industry experience and my whole life has gone from bad to complete shit. I hate that pursuing a job in a field that I was passionate about has left me destitute, stressed out, and miserable.
I am so sorry that this happened to you. This is not how it should be. I hope you get by and have help and lovely people in your life. It won't be like this forever, thing will change.
All hail the free market
Give praise to our overlords
Sacrifice yourself on the altar of short term gains
Rest your head knowing your aches feed your betters
Sympathies...I haven't been able to get into programming, network, or any of the things I literally went to university and got a full degree for. It's been multiple years and I don't get offers even from min. wage jobs because they see the fancy paper and assume I'm going to leave.
It's been horrible and I *feel* horrible because I am supported by friends and family while looking...again, for years...With nothing to show for it. I'm sorry you had your job ripped from you, because that's so depressing too. Hope things can work out for us...And I try to support movements that might help fix things
It’s going to be funny when a different video game company executive says something even more heinous in a few days.
It ain't even funny anymore. It's just worrying.
It's beyong worrying. It's INFURIATING!
Oh hey Brownd i didn't know you also watched Jimquisition
You know what, fine. If he thinks everyone who gets laidoff should just take a year off and go to the beach, then everyone who gets laidoff should also get a severance package equal to a full years salary.
But, but... where will the money come from? The executive's wallet? That would mean giving up almost... 0.0001% of their money, and they NEED that money. They need it to, uh... eat! (Y'know, because they eat it like in that picture.)
Here's one better: shares equal to the CEO's holdings as part of the package. Every employee you lay off reduces the percentage of the company you own.
Thank god for Stephanie Sterling.
Their hair’s way longer… I was so used to the wigs I almost hadn’t noticed.
"KISS ASS!"
@@UNSCMarine117 Steph's ass is top quality ass. Thank god for that ass.
Real. I recently started watching their videos and oh my goodness she’s so fucking funny. (I hope I got their pronouns right, pls correct me if I’m wrong)
You’re right dw. She goes by she/her but I’m not so sure if she still goes by they/them. She might but I could he wrong
I actually like that this Executive is so honest about their cartoonishly awful takes. At least it gives away the game and it's difficult to find fanboys defending it. I have a much larger problem with the executives like Phil Spencer who want to put on a face for the gamers and gamer press so that they can have a legion of fanboys defending their terrible actions.
You are underestimating the fanboy ability to make astronomical logical leaps and bounds they will make to land square on an executive’s dick hoping that with enough dickriding they will be rich someday too (they won’t)
They’ll be here in full force soon.
Absolutely LOVE the idea of using "executive" as an insult (as in "he said some executive shit")
Also Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" but it's great that the aristocracy of our age r ACTUALLY as stupid as a literal mockery of the French nobility.
Quote: "Lost your job? Just go hang out on the beach..."
Me: "That _could_ just be a reasonable suggestion to take a few personal days, get a change of pace, do some healing?"
Quote: "...For a year!"
Me: "Right, never _fucking_ mind then, it was completely and utterly out-of-touch owner-class twattery after all!"
the 1%: why aren't people doing the things we've actively made impossible to do?
"Why is the forest burning when we torched it napalm. Oh well, all the burned bodies means more coal to sell, people should be happy I get more money. They haven't got a food source anymore ? They should open a supermarket or something."
@@KaiserAfiniyeah that's how it is these days it's really messed up
It's shocking just how disconnected these execs are from the reality of most people. Is sociopathy a hard requirement for hiring them? The utter lack of empathy and common sense is just crazy. Thank fucking god for you, Steph.
It's not a hard requirement, but sociopathy makes it easier to step on others and "climb the corporate ladder".
It's not a hard requirement, but the way that businesses are set up it makes it very easy for sociopaths to do well.
It's considered advantageous among directing boards and others involved in picking executives, and antisocial personality disorders have an advantage in interviews and hiring processes.
Short answer? Yes.
Long answer? Yes, because the kind of attitudes and behavioral tendencies that do well in moderb corporate politics tend to be copypasted from a list of socipathic behaviors
You need to be evil to willingly step on others for your own benefit.
AI should be replacing these overpaid executive psychos instead of taking jobs from actual workers.
For all we know ai might realize long term profit and benefits for the company would be treating employees like humans and giving them actual pays that let them send money back to the economy and not just barely survive. Securing good employees, company loyalty, motivation to do better. Not just the grim specter of "will we be fired this year, regardless of results" situation
@@Aldenfenrisnever thought I'd end up fighting side by side with an AI
You know as much as I hate AI replacing genuine workers, AI as an executive would probably at the very least be smart enough to know how valuable a human work force is considering AI is usually just trained on content on the internet.
@@TheFrostedfirefly At least, an AI might figure long term gains is better than short terms and self destructing.
Y'know what, I'll take robots in a managerial position. I actively understand they will not care because they are not human, but at least we can turn them off or reprogram them.
When this news appeared on the net it was so gdamn exasperating. Especially when the usual corpo bootlickers appeared and said "he was taken out of context. That's not what he said." Except all of what he said in context was the same damn thing but in more words and even worse.
Lucky, I only saw comments saying that Sony developers deserved it because they were woke.
@@goldsnake90If I was stuck in my room all day letting the fumes of the mold damage my brain because I'm too busy crying about woke to do anything productive. I would be saying that too.
I refuse to refer to those people as clowns because clowns tend to be funny and joyful. These are just very bad people doing things that cause disgust in the name of infinite growth.
This is why, whatever success capitalism was and may have been, this form of late stage capitalism is a failure.
The only metric we use to justify anything is the money metric. :/
@@jaegrant6441if this world we currently live in is the result of capitalism, then can it be considered a success in any way whatsoever?
As an adult I don't find clowns particularly funny, but unlike the executives they do an honest work and don't harm the society
Some clowns are funny and joyful. Some clowns are John Wayne Gacy.
When people use "clown" as an insult, they mean the Joker or Pennywise.
The problem with a gaming executive saying something horrible is another one will come along soon enough to say something even worse.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Grey's Law.
I'm going to say it. This is one of the most important videos on the industry out there right now. Everyone needs to see this.
What happened to the good old days, when Codemasters was David & Richard Darling working out of their bedroom? When Arcade conversions to home computers were achieved by teenagers over a matter of weeks?
Why have executives and shareholders infiltrated our hobby, eating it from the inside out like fucking rat poison?
Why is this shit happening to something we so love and cherish?
Oh yeah.
_All of the money_
That's why.
I mean, after some of the things that came out in 2023, gamers of all folks should know something's only ever the worst thing in history _so far_ .
I also liked how the statement included how they should keep up with developer news or they will fall behind, while also telling them to find a cheap place to live. Like, move away to somewhere cheaper, then move back here the second an opening is available, while retaining all the knowledge a developer would need to know to be effective and efficient in the industry.
Right? Move somewhere cheap, drive a Uber (probably won't find many tours there), and ALSO make sure you don't fall behind on your dev skills or you won't be able to find another job again. Sounds just _great!_ /s
CEOs and managers getting fired needs to be the new industry standard.
I recall seeing an article saying that CEO heads have been rolling. Of course, even the most incompetent CEO has a golden parachute which is far better than any severance package a mere worker could ever hope for.
It's not the "take the year off" for me. It's the fact that in the same statement he basically admitted that actually they won't want to hire anybody who did exactly the same thing he's telling people to do? He KNOWS they won't want to hire anybody who's been out of work a year and sitting on the beach. He seems to realize this mid-statement, so he says something about keeping up with... news? Is that what you look for in hires, Chris? People who've kept up with news?
I'm a non-game dev and I'm still underemployed because of two separate rounds of COVID-related layoffs, so I'm a smidge sensitive to this, but dear lord, I've never seen a statement like this where someone made it so clear that they know they're just spouting BS before they'd even finished answering the question. Even the people who DO make the kind of money he imagines can't do what he's suggesting and get another equivalent job later. And he knows it.
For me it was "once you're off the train it's hard to get back on" YOU PUSHED THEM OFF THE FUCKING TRAIN
See also "find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year"
You know, all those famously inexpensive beachside properties
Being CEO is just legal crime: Get in, get as much money as possible, get out.
People who control the video game industry thinks everyone is an "Non-playable Character". The real joke here is all of them don't even know what that means.
nah, that would imply any of the people at the top actually played the shit they try to sell.
The kind of people who are successful in executive positions probably don’t think about the employees much at all beyond seeing them as an expendable unit to be exploited and discarded as needed.
no they think of them as "Non-Payable Chaff"
Asking people to find a cheap place to live while being part of the class that inflates houses prices is the most moronic shit I’ve ever heard.
The only innovation executives bring is how many ways they can find to excuse their uselessness.
New "let them eat cake" just dropped:
"Let them go to the beach."
13:39 or it was a slip of the tongue on his part: he wishes to pay programmers, designers, etc. the same amount of money an uber-driver would get.
In the 18th there's a phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette when she heard that people were dying of hunger because there was no more bread: "Let them eat cake". There are no records of her saying that, however, we have something more concrete and terrifying now, in the 21st an executive had said that those with their lives at stake should just go to the beach and wait until things gets better. It's just appaling
I am pretty sure I've read about comments during a local famine of how people just want to avoid taxes and that is why they die from hunger everywhere. But haven't been able to find any confirmation from good enough historical sources. But it probably is not a coincidence that all these point out specific things about ideology of the rich people.
@@timop6340Sounds like Charles Trevelyan during the great famine in Ireland, who closed all the soup kitchens because it was lowering the price of food.
During a famine!
And even then the original apocryphal quote is "let them eat brioche" because brits didn't know what it was so they rendered it as cake (though to be fair brits do call "cake" some stuff Italians call brioche because languages are weird).
@det.bullock4461 'There are no more Baggetts left, my Queen.'
'Then let the people eat Brioche instead.'
The British had a poor translation & thought Brioche was Cake. 🤷♂️
You know that someone's bad when they're not even properly censoring the word with SKELETON WARRIORS!
The irony is that Chris Deering is right in one respect. In a just society, normal people should be able to just take a sabbatical year to hang out on the beach and enjoy themselves thanks to a strong safety net.
Though I doubt Chris Deering supports such policies.
Um Chris? It’s autumn.
Chris: What, you can’t BUY a warmer season? Just Uber more!
Ugh just go to your second home in the southern hemisphere... Like what are you even doing with the millions of dollars in your annual bonus for doing nothing?
I mean, travel to a place that it is warmer! Duh! Can't you just fly to the Bahamas?!
“Let them eat cake”. …I believe the French people had a decent response to that statement.
I live, survive really, on about $600 a month.
I would love to see these stupid execs attempt to live for a year on $600 a month.
And that's my total, that's before food, utilities, rent, that's it. $600 to spend on everything you need to survive for the month.
Where is rent even that cheap? Even just a room was like $250 10 years ago. And that's north cackylacky rent
Low income housing. Rent is 30% of my adjusted income.
@@glenngriffon8032 On the one hand it's nice low income housing exists (also in it) on the other, any time you get more money 30% of it is abount to go away into your now higher rent. It's infuriating.
Oh you just got an $80 a month raise from cost of living adjustments? No you didn't. $24 of that is vanishing into your rent, you get $56 dollars. Btw your food bill is up $70.
...the economics of being disabled are godawful.
I take it there's a lot of rice and beans in your diet? Been there, man. I'm so sorry
Make it a TV show, they'll love the idea of being made famous, just do what that Japanese TV show did to that one dude and never let it stop. Or just keep letting them out for a week after a year just to drop them back in.
My problem with all of this "woke" complaint is that it serves to distract us from genuine issues in gaming industry such as corporate greed and the utter callous contempt for the developers and workers who spent so many hours developing a game that fails thanks to incompetent leadership who take no accountability and instead fire employees while giving themselves ridiculous bonuses and raises.
In fact it's in my mind that the "forced diversity" things we see is intentionally made so corporate executives can have a scapegoat so the anger isn't directed against them.
Tenet was caught as a Russian propaganda machine.
I'm sure that is part of it.
Culture war nonsense is perpetuated by grifters because it benefits them, they don't realize the harm they're doing. Rage and drama is monetizable and is very profitable, that's all that matters to them.
It's not a distraction at the end of the day it is the core issue. Hate watch or love watch it makes no difference for the shareholders.
Yep, basically. It's smoke screen. We can use this to hide or blame the real crap we are doing.
The same thing happens when any questionable law or such happens. Always some scandal or weird take to distract the masses while the real issue is pushed through.
@@allengordon6929 Core issue? It's an issue that doesn't actually exist. None of this "woke" nonsense is real. It's all hallucinated, made up boogeymen to keep people leashed like dogs. Let's just imagine nobody cared about it for a sec and we tackled the elephant in the room. Surely, since we're in a civilized society, we can just eventually, maybe in 10-15 years as fast as the legal system moves, vote out all the useless rich people out of power, ain't that right? Isn't that what we all collectively agree on? Assuming that the legal system is even functional in North America.
imagine being so far out of touch that you think of covid as a vacation... And think of getting fired as a vacation. I have been unemployed due to disability for years and at no point did i think of any of it as a vacation....
Same. ❤️🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄🥄
Our daughter can't keep employment due to her disability and it's just sick that this is the measure by which people are decided worthy of living or not
@@debbiemitchell6055 yeah.. Like i've tried my best for a decade at finding and keeping a job. But it just never worked out. Now i am deemed a failure by not only society but most hurtfully by my friends and family who have all given up on me. Every time i get in an argument and it gets heated i just get called lazy.... I've had a literal mental breakdown and spend 4 months in the hospital on suicide watch but they don't care... Because i don't have a job and therefore am a parasite.
Yep it's actually extremely depressing in my experience. Not having that routine, not getting out enough, meeting new people etc. Very lonely. Some days I just didn't get out of bed or didn't eat for 2 or 3 days.
@@dudemetslagroom8065I'm sorry stranger. Hope things work out.
The other day, I saw 2 jobs from the same company back to back. One was for a programmer. The other was a manager for a programming team. The lower end for the manager salary is just above the higher end for the programmer's. So they're like, "the person that manages the people that makes the thing should make more than the people making the thing."... How does that make sense? Like, you wouldn't feed more power into the steering than you would the wheels. You wouldn't feed more power into the router than you would the actual data lines.
I don't know why companies think the managers should get all the credit for the workers they manage.
Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project. And that is truly not easy, it's a skill that can and must be learned.
On top of that, a manager should have experience with the work they're managing, because one of the key duties of a manager is communicating across responsibilities and departments. One can't do that without properly understanding the state of the project and what needs to be done to complete it. They can't relay issues and problems and get others to start working on a fix without at least a workable understanding of what the issue or problem even is, and if the proposed solution is going to rectify it.
This requires a lot of experience, and that experience should be compensated well. I started this comment with the word "unfortunately" because regular viewers of Steph know all too well that upper management has perverted every part of the above description in its favour.
@@Beremor And isn't that the really sad thing? If you need a manager in a group to make sure the group project is going forward in a reasonable manner, then said managers need to be fairly compensated for the work. But because of corporate management beliefs, the very concept of management is becoming tainted over time.
@@Beremor "Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project. And that is truly not easy, it's a skill that can and must be learned."
Except, that's what daily scrums are for. We have kanban boards that track all of that. The team lead (which I've been) also keeps track of that.
"On top of that, a manager should have experience with the work they're managing,"
Yeah, no. I've never met a manager of a programming team that has experience, much less a degree, in computer science. I had one that lied to me about it, but when you ask questions like "What's the difference between a repository and an account group?", it's pretty obvious where their expertise lie. None of my programming peers have also ever had a manager that knows anything about programing. "What if their expertise isn't in programming, but the project?" I hear you ask. That's what SME's are for (subject matter experts). And they, while often being stakeholders, should NOT direct the project as the point of doing the programming project is to do something DIFFERENT than what they've been doing things. And that's ignoring the fact that, often, the SME are experts in the thing that the project is being built for, not the programming side.
"...because one of the key duties of a manager is communicating across responsibilities and departments."
And yet, how often do we hear people like Elon Musk talk completely out of his a*s about how things run in his company? That kind of duties is almost always filled with lies, ignorance and, as I mentioned before, the manager taking credit. This is why so many managers go "We don't need programmers, we can do this ourselves." And then f*cking royal when making the actual program. And that's ignoring the fact most of them oversell on what the team is capable of doing just to impress the bosses. Otherwise known as lying. Which, last I check is not a skill but a failure at communication. Also fraud, but you know.
"One can't do that without properly understanding the state of the project and what needs to be done to complete it."
Yeah, most managers get an understanding of the state of the project by going to the team lead and going "Hey, where are we now and how long do you need?" Or, just a wild idea, looking at the kanban board because that's what it's for.
"They can't relay issues and problems and get others to start working on a fix without at least a workable understanding of what the issue or problem even is, and if the proposed solution is going to rectify it."
Right, because programmers, when we run into problems, sit on our hands and wait on managers to contact another team for a solution. No dude, we just go to that team and go "Hey, I'm running into this. What do you suggest?"
"This requires a lot of experience, and that experience should be compensated well."
So, the management skill requires more experience and education than us, who have a friggin SCIENCE degree? And hence need more compensation that the person who can LITERALLY wire his own circuit board and then PROGRAM for said circuit board? Than the person doing the actual work? I literally had to learn rudimentary EE, linear algebra, ON TOP of intel ASM, data structures, discrete math, a smattering of languages (I probably know about 8~9 programming languages to varying degrees of aptitude) AND I lead a team just fine with a manager that was like (and this is the best manager I've ever had), "Hey, you got this right? If you have any problems, tap me on the shoulder." The sh*t managers were the ones that were like "I have x years of experience in handling y people teams?!? Why couldn't have you built this for me 2 week prior to you finishing the project ahead of time?!?" (This is barely an exaggeration. I literally had a manager yell at me for not finishing sooner than 2 days BEFORE the deadline.)
If you STILL think this is a valid argument, consider this. Without a manager, I've built entire products that's ready for commercialization. A manager without programmers have products to sell.
@@sleepingkirby , what?
@@sleepingkirby Thanks for the elaborate response!
"I've never met a manager of a programming team that has experience, much less a degree, in computer science."
And that's part of the problem, isn't it? Something something failing upwards, something something Peter principle. I wrote 'should' in the exact sentence you're quoting for this reason. They *should* have an idea about the work they're managing (they needn't be experts, but they should understand an issue when explained by a professional), but so very commonly they have no clue about anything other than setting deadlines. I also agree that SMEs shouldn't have a say in programming for the same reason a doctor shouldn't manage a hospital construction site.
"And yet, how often do we hear people like Elon Musk talk completely out of his a*s about how things run in his company?"
You did read the final sentence of my comment, yes? You're preaching to the choir.
"No dude, we just go to that team and go "Hey, I'm running into this. What do you suggest?""
Cross-team and -department communication is a skill. I'm absolutely not doubting your abilities nor that of your colleagues - I hope you're folks who can explain your work well to people who aren't deep in the weeds and translate the answers of an expert on a completely different subject matter to something you can improve your own work with. My point is that on large projects with lots of people working together on wildly disparate parts, it can be challenging for people to communicate across different areas of expertise.
For instance, in World of Tanks, every single tank is going to require the input of a SME, artists, programmers and game designers. Tanks in World of Tanks are sort of a big deal, so reasonably, one would want to make sure that each tank feels as good to play as possible, which means satisfying the wildly diverse interests of each of those four groups. It pays to have someone with *a workable bit of professional knowledge* in all four fields to communicate with each and keep a bird's eye view of development progress.
Again, I'm not discrediting your skills or those of your colleagues. I'm also not saying the kanban board doesn't work. But adhering to prior planning will only get you so far. It's entirely possible to plan out a project in advance, stick to that plan and realize very late in development that nobody considered how boss fights should work or integrate into the game, as happened with Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Would have been lovely to have someone competent at the intersection of writing, combat systems and game design to catch that minor oversight so a crucial part of the game wouldn't have to be outsourced to G.R.I.P. at the last minute, no?
"So, the management skill requires more experience and education than us, who have a friggin SCIENCE degree?"
From the rest of that paragraph, I'll hazard a guess that there were at least a few times in your professional career that you would have liked to have a superior to talk to about some important, but also highly technical problem you're facing. Particularly early on when you *didn't* have that breadth and depth of knowledge and encountered problems you didn't readily have a roadmap for solving.
"Without a manager, I've built entire products that's ready for commercialization."
I never claimed that's impossible. Please, re-read my comment: "Unfortunately, there is a genuine argument to be made for managers. [... I say] "unfortunately" because regular viewers of Steph know all too well that upper management has perverted every part of the above description in its favour."
"Large projects just require some people working full-time to make sure everyone's doing their job right and in service of the project." Do you think Baldur's Gate 3 could be made with no managers - just a collaborative effort between artists, actors, programmers and designers? Do you think all you need to build a Volvo XC40 and get it street legal in Europe is a factory full of engineers and parts and a few people to take care of the paperwork?
I argue that such insular thinking leads to games like Final Fantasy 14's original release - a game where QA and localisers(!) were the first people to notice just how bad it actually was. And I wish more projects had better managers.
In case my stance *still* isn't clear to you: People like Elon Musk, Bobby Kotick, J. Allen Brack, Chris Deering, Todd Howard, Jeff Bezos, whoever else is comparable to them and whoever else aspires to be like them are a superfluous waste of time and leech to their industries and professions. I resent them for the fact that they've taken humanity's tendency towards hierarchy, smuggled themselves on the top and use their positions as retroactive justification for their presence. I abhor each and every self-important worm taking credit from hard-working people to secure their own position at the cost of the people they took credit from, and I hate the fact that I think the importance they ascribe themselves (and utterly fail to live up to while wildly overpaying said importance) was once rooted in reality and reason.
"Just hang out on a beach for a year" - yeah if you make tens of millions a year you could have that luxury. The real world (the rest of us) don't have such luxuries.
But beaches are free, are they really that good?
Maybe I'm confused because I live in the UK which is tiny and we have beaches most directions within an hour of us.
Good for finding fossils though.
@@Roadent1241 lmao okay, go live there.
@@jingbot1071 I do, practically, my dad moved us. Still as isolating as the middle of the countryside, I don't see the point. Especially since it's cold and wet here most of the time. What's the rich dude promoting it for?
@@Roadent1241 Imagine living somewhere public for longer than a night and NOT getting arrested and made to work in the prison industrial complex...
Ah, life outside America.
@@jingbot1071 Well if it's public, why would you get arrested?
Beaches, of course, the best place to find "cheap places to live". What a prick.
It dawned on me he might *actually* think to make one out of sand like a sand castle
Should he have his white rhino steaks without the blood gold shavings? What's the point then. Sacrifices must be made!
So his stance is “hire less lay off more” and he thinks that’s the KIND stance?
11:29 "I've certainly cracked a lot of eggs." How the hell are OMELETS relevant right now!?
See, this is where the point where _I_ would've bragged about the number of people whom you've helped come to terms with their gender identity (myself included).
Frankly, your culinary prowess is a lot less impressive than that. Weird flex, sis. /s
Ah, clearly you've missed the reference.
You see, in this context, the eggs being broken are not the kind you use for omelettes. They are for cookie making, and cake baking. Stephanie is bragging about her baking skills, and not just her ability to stuff an egg and flip it over before putting it in her mouth.
There’s actually a term for a system run by the least qualified people: a kakistocracy. The video game industry is a perfect example.
Interesting. I’m more familiar with the Peter Principle: people keep getting promoted until they reach a level where they’re incompetent, then get stuck there due to their lack of performance.
This is the basic state of all human civilization
Hearing you get so angry about it on Podquisition, I knew that wasn't gonna be the last we heard of this story.
Hanlon ignored the fact that malice can stem from stupidity.
Like most of Canada, Nova Scotia has a serious shortage of doctors and subsequently some pretty major issues with the health care system. Our current Conservative premier ran on a platform of improving health care (which anyone with half a brain raised some eyebrows at because the only solution is to spend more money on it and that's not exactly the Conservative way), which has been a colossal failure in pretty much every way. To be fair, part of the issue is that we've seen a significant influx of people from other parts of Canada since Covid, fuelled by the shift to remote work meaning people with higher-paying jobs from elsewhere in the country can now come live somewhere with nicer scenery (though he's 100% been pushing for that migration to pull in a larger tax base), but when pressed on the fact that more people than ever are without a family doctor, Mr. Houston's response was something to the effect of "well then the people moving here should have brought their doctors with them."
It wasn't exactly a secret that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth (his previous career was helping billionaires shelter their money in offshore tax havens, most of the people he's given positions of power to are personal friends that stand to profit from it, and he's rolled out the typical "minimum wage jobs aren't real jobs" sort of rhetoric on many occasions), but that line in particular really struck home just how hideously out of touch he is with basic reality. To think that a meaningful number of people have the option of simply bringing a well-paid professional with them (a well-paid professional that will have no difficulty finding new work anywhere else in the country if they want to, no less) when they move to a new province is just so unfathomably stupid.
Surprising nobody, the only "improvements" he's made to health care are to spend $10 million on an app that just links to websites that already existed (and barely work), and just recently he announced a plan to spend $45 million exploring ways to use Google Cloud Services and AI to "improve health care" in some exceptionally dubious ways. In every regard, he's played the role of a clueless executive glomping on to buzzwords and bandwagons without understanding any of the actual issues he assumed would be so easy to solve, thanks to spending his entire life without ever actually having to solve any real problems.
Thank god for you 🙌🏼 thank you for continuing to shine a light on this ignorant bs, with shit this garbo it helps to not feel alone while you’re dealing with it
People say that Marie Antoinette cake thing was more of a made up thing for the sake of propaganda that no one would ever be so clueless as to say something like that.
Yea i am beginning to think rich people can actually be this clueless.
funny, my dyslexic ass read Executioner instead of Executive in the title and I realize they are the same thing
we used to call people like the executive class princes, and lords. Perhaps we should do away with them as we do away with the royalty of the past?
We still have landlords
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Sharpen the blade for them too.
I really appreciate you putting these people's names in the video description. It's critically important search engines know this video is about Former Sony Europe CEO Chris Deering and will be relevant to people searching for him.
*shrug* I found the name and who he was former with by googling *game executive beach for a year*
Why would an industry learn anything if the people in charge never face consequences for their crap? If you give a dog a treat every time it pees on your carpet it's not going to stop peeing on your carpet, is it?
The industry hasn’t learned because their priorities shifted. It’s no longer about making a good product. It’s about keeping shareholders happy.
@@randomstuff-qu7sh Then their customers also need to be their shareholders. Which is a bit tricky, as most of them don't live in the same country as the market they're listed on, and it's not exactly easy to get into share trading, let alone international trading.
"If the customers don't buy the last game, its hard to justify the next."
Maybe you should, i dunno...
*_Make more than one game for your console._*
Or maybe all execs should realise that shoving us down further into poverty means we'll never be able to afford their damned products in the first place.
Remember Nintendo boss had to step down because the Wii U didn’t make as much money as the shareholders expected - even though it was profitable - share price went down. People got sacked.
Which just proves the point that executives and shareholders don't want to be profitable, they want *ALL OF THE MONEY* .
People keep bringing up Iwata taking a pay cut in response to problems with Nintendo profits, but what a lot of people don't mention is that like...that wasn't done out of the goodness of his heart, it was because of Japanese employment law meaning that the company leadership has to face some kind of punishment BEFORE they take the step of laying people off.
This isn't just an industry issue, this is a governmental issue: unless these executives are forced to do the right thing, as long as perpetuating evil is the cheaper option, they won't DO the right thing.
I seem to recall certain analysts stating that the wealth gap we are currently seeing in the world today is at a level that has not been seen since the time of the pharaohs. I think I’m starting to believe that.
With what followed the Pharohs, that statement is more terrifying than anyone probably realizes.
@@AlanWilhelm-fv7to What, you don't want to fight mysterious people from the sea?
What's amazing is how they always top the last despicable thing said by a previous corporate bastard
Seeing all the different Lee's popping up has become one of my favorite things about the Jimquisition. 👌🏻
I see two reasons for managers handling these situation so god awful:
1. They are truly detached to other people related to work and cannot properly relate to them money wise.
2. They are not being paid to handle those well or to relate to common people.
1. Holy hell, that makeup is STUNNING 😍
2. You ask what qualifications do these turds have? The only qualification that matters to shareholders, of course. The ability to make big numbers go up, no matter the cost. It was never about the games for them, they just saw a burgeoning market back in the late nineties and latched on like parasites.
3. So, is it time for us to go all A Bug's Life on the grasshopper execs, yet?
Right??
Man, it's probably all nostalgia but `A Bug's Life` was good, so freaking fun
I once asked our main manager and VP if we could get back the scheduled time we used to have to read our emails at the start of the day, quite often I had over twenty emails threads/escalations to deal with at the start of a day. I asked for this as we used to have it for years then they simply removed it, they justified it because some people were abusing it and they felt we didn't need it anymore, the reply was so idiotic I have no words. It boiled down to "I don't get tasked time to read my emails each day"....but that's your entire job and position? You don't have a schedule of tasks like we did, I was working in Customer Support where we were minutely scheduled for tasks each day, and any email time I took was "dead time" basically because it wasn't Customer facing. It fucking sucked.
Also, the reply to complaints about the cost of living was "get another job then" as well. Really A Class management!
Executives suck full stop, they are the ones costing money and need to be bought to task for their failures, but they never are, they simply blame it on underlings, they can't do anything wrong as executives right? RIGHT?! Most Game Company Shareholders don't even understand the business they invest in or care about the optics (usually), as long as the gravy train keeps on rolling.
The Lee puns are reaching a critical mass. Zilla must be stopped.
"YOU FOOL! This isn't even my FINAL-LEE"
The minute I saw the article I knew I was looking forward to a good video on Monday.
"If money isn't coming in from the previous game we can't justify keeping developers on for the next game."
It's not like inflation has gotten so bad that people have to be extremely picky about the games they buy year after year and if your game is a shitty live service (when games like Baldur's Gate 3 that actually respect the player base exist) we won't want to spend money on it.
On a more positive note, Uber and Lyft are now required (as of August 15th I think) to pay $32.50/hr in Massachusetts after the employees won their lawsuit at the end of June.
I feel Chris Deering aptly fits a great phrase I heard once 'A sack of shit, tied at the middle.'
6:46 Huh?? If they don't "spend the money for the next game" then there won't **be** any money because making games is where the money comes from, what business does he think he's in??
The tax fraud business?
Sony's version of "Let them eat cake!"
Jim Sterling... been a fan for years. Always thought they were really cool. I have enjoyed watching their transition and transformation.
These money people in the tech sector don't understand that everything they enjoy requires effort from others in society.
I'm all for being an ungrateful so and so, but when you're handed the top echelon of society and it's STILL not enough? These people need I don't even know what kind of treatment
I'm pretty sure the question in Jim Stephanie Sterling's video title is actually a challenge...
Game execs will certainly take it as one 🙃
Playing "Under the Sea" in the background is just *chef kiss*
Just more reasons to *Socialize* the games industry.
- More Unions
- More independent studios, FOSS and public options
- more consumer rights protections and regulations.
I hate to break it to you babe: People within the industry that actually care about the artform of Videogames and the consumers that also understand that art can exist within things most consider to be toys know EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE.
3:16 Jason and the Argonauts?
Also, Z. Mann Zilla is nailing it with the pictures describing the words said.
Can we normalise calling people "Skeleton Worriers" when we mean the other thing.
I know I've done it.
Did this have anything to do with the meme of reading "social justice warriors" as "skeletons"?
@@BagOfMagicFood what about computer keyboard warriors? That’s much more accurate.
Gloves: Fingerless
Eyeshadow: Deadly
Critique: Searing
If only executive incompetence was confined to the Games Industry. Working in the Environmental field is equally mad. Somebody should do a video about that. Here that's an idea! Love the anger, there's too many willing to sit back and complain with no understanding. anyway, great video!
The executive should be forced to work as an Uber driver. Maybe he'll finally get a reality check.
Kudos to the editor for working in a clip from Dragon Strike. ❤
"Go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year"
Won't you come with us, Mr. Deering? We'll find you a nice lovely short pier to take a long walk on.
I am just here to say that the 1000000% increase in bruce lee in the editing is highly appreciated
I've been saying it for a while now, but people really need to look up Georges Besse, particularly what happened to him when he pulled something very similar.
Short version from Wikipedia for those even lazier than I: He was CEO of Renauld, laid off a bunch of people, then got assassinated for it by an anarchist group.
@@luccaladinig2783 If only Americans would use their right to bear arms to do some of this instead of harassing non-cishetmaleChristianabledneurotypicalmales for existing.
@@luccaladinig2783 Oh that means this is gonna get CRAZY.
...yeah, this is basically "Let them eat cake." Where are the French when you need 'em?
No. We need romanians for this
Skeleton warriors sounds so much better than BEEEP when a word needs to be censored.
It really is up there with "Let them eat cake!"
"Let them eat cake" is civil by modern standards. Also literally happening. But I like my ho hos.
I don't like being "trickled down" on. Like what the actual fuck. How is that not 10x more offensive.
As someone who was made redundant in Jan this year, and took 6 months to get back into a job similar to my previous one (not in the gaming industry), this kind of sentiment is offensive and disgusting.
Thank you Steph for pointing out these horrible statements - still loving the Podquisition weekly!
@16:18 Number Monkeys might have zero social ability, but at least they legitimately obsess over what makes 'number go up.' Gaming executives can't even do that; they just get scared and confused when the thing they get others to make fails, and then they blame us, ignorant to their own inability to design an actual product.
The Saints Row Music at the end always makes me happy after these devastating videos that destroy my faith in humanity.