I assume you're joking because that's not really how Lemmy works, for anyone who may not know. My instance is my own, for example. I'm replying to you via Lemmy running on a server I own.
Yeah that's fair. But also it's realistically vastly more complicated and almost incomparable because with $156B you can actually manipulate markets to improve your returns. People will buy your house at a premium to say they own Jeff Bezos' previous property. Etc. Beyond the direct ratio comparison, there are so many fundamentally inequal parts about wealth at that scale.
Say he earns less than a high yield savings account for a year (~4.5% currently), he can retire on only that year's income with over 7 billion in the bank and this purchase would be more like someone with 100k saved spending 1k (on a house).
He spent 75 million for the house next to one he already owned. He's worth $156 billion.
Let's say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you would be something costing roughly $50. He bought a mansion worth more than I'll ever see for proportionally less than what I would spend on an AAA video game.
Oh and it'll either hold value or appreciate, so he will likely just make more money on it. Or at the very least pay relatively a lot less once he decides to sell.
But look, guys, you asked for this by saying you want us to pay staff better. We will, but first we need to increase some prices heavily because I only took this CEO job because of the juicy bonus and I'm definitely not giving that up. Would you? And don't forget the board we're so lucky to have who need their stipends and stock grants etc, lest they find other companies willing to bow to their demands. We wouldn't be who we are if we didn't keep paying the top dogs top dollar.
As a dev, though not a game dev, I'll wager good money this is not the outcome you'd find on a survey of the game devs involved. It's the kind of thing that devs will suggest when asked "okay let's say we need to make this next iteration as cheaply as possible now, what could we do?" But most of the devs likely take pride in their craft and if given the time would definitely want to optimize their game.
I asked Valve about how they might approach solving this problem if it was their game and they literally ran away from me while yelling something that sounded vaguely like "Modern Warfare Alyx."
Yes but sometimes their kids just talk forever, or they themselves just ignore the reality that their time has come, and we've got places to be. So the nice request comes with a deadline.
All I know is I ate way more sugar than usual last night which was otherwise a very normal boring night. And this morning my mood is pretty trash and I'm a bit more anxious than usual. Not a scientific study by any means but there's definitely some correlation for me in the past.
IDK about child's play but definitely enough for the lower decks engineers to clean overnight.