Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash

• grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A video game company with a valuation in the billions of dollars, yes. Of which this guy was a co-founder and board member, meaning he was doing quite well for himself.

  Does it not count because “it’s just video games lmao”? Would it be better if it was a music label or film studio?

  Maybe instead of touching grass, you should pay more attention to the class war his type are waging against ours.

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  • sen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    So what’s the cutoff for you then? If a person has more than $10 million does their life no longer matter? $5 million? What exact net-worth cutoff indicates they’re a cretin who is hellbent on enslaving the working class?

    We live in a capitalist society. Even here in Canada where I have access to more socialized services, it’s still a capitalist society. People are going to make money - sometimes it’s borne of privilege, other times hard work, and sometimes the amount is egregious, but in my eyes the hard cutoff is whether or not they are a billionaire and/or use that money to influence policy.

    Being wealthy at the age of 70 after spending literal decades growing one of the largest video game companies is not a crime and does not by default make this guy an awful person - AND - the amount paid to execs in many cases is disproportionate and would be better spent uplifting those who do the actual work.

    I can believe both of those things simultaneously while not punching down at a dead guy who was not a billionaire. Why can’t you?

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    • grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I’m not punching down. I’m punching up. This dude didn’t give a rat’s ass about the people who made him wealthy while he was alive, so why is he owed consideration by those same people just because he’s dead?

      Why does growing a company matter, if it’s done by stealing the wages of the people that are producing the growth?

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