Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by exolymph on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:19PM (#21984998)

Those people don't generate $1,620,000 with their labor once they leave Facebook. That number comes from being plugged into the Facebook machine, part of its system. Which is why Facebook gets the revenue and the employee gets a salary.

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by spamizbad on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:56PM (#21985407)

But that system is made of employees. It's not the office building or the computers. It's not the copy machine or the coffee maker. It's other workers.

If all I needed to do was make the same capital investments as facebook to get the same returns wouldn't that be wonderful?

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Re:Major union launches campaign to organize video game and ... by xyzzyz on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:01PM (#21986165)

It’s more than just employees. It’s also existing capital, both physical and in form of intellectual property (e.g. the codebases and their real world deployments), and the organization of labor inside the company. If you take 10 000 random software engineers and put them in one huge office without any business structure imposed on them, you aren’t going to see billions of dollars in revenue any time soon.

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