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Industry insiders will pay tens of millions of dollars a year to fight off the bad press of their shitty decisions, while doggedly insisting the market cannot support the salaries of a few middle income developers living in some of the most expensive residential markets in the country.
This is why federated social media is important.
Please let it be today!
I really don’t care what starts the revolution, but I’d be pleased as punch if history books of the future had to note that gamers ate the first CEO after he shit on their favorite devs
We got hella people, they got helicopters
They got the bombs and we got the…
we got the
“Greed is not the issue here” - actual dragon sitting on literal pile of gold.
Billionaires are greedier than dragons. The richest greediest dragon in all of fiction is Smaug, and he has an obscene amount of wealth. I’ve seen estimates of his wealth ranging from 5 billion dollars of gold on the low end, all the way up to 15-20 billion dollars of gold on the high end.
However, Smaug is an incredible outlier. He’s basically the Musk of Dragons. The absolute most gold you’ll find on a dragon in any video game or ttrpg is 5 million gold pieces. That’s only if RNGesus smiles on you, and rolls as high as it could. The average is more like 3.5 million gold pieces of wealth.
1 gold piece = ⅒oz of gold. So we are looking at 350,000 - 500,000 oz of gold for the upper 50% of all red elder worms. Any other dragon type doesn’t hoard that much.
That comes out to a real world value of between $800,000,000 to $1,200,000,000. That’s for the richest dragons out there.
Most dragons aren’t billionaires.
Therefore, billionaires are literally greedier than the anthropomorphic caricaturization of greed from legend, namely dragons. The greediest fictional thing we could come up with isn’t greedy enough to accurately portray these people’s mental illnesses.
Shadowrun probably throws these assumptions off a bit. Dunkelzahn’s net worth is hard to pin down but I think the listed cash dispursements in his will exceeded 1 billion nuyen, plus all the real estate and the establishment of several foundations, several items of extreme power and a number of ‘wishes’.
Lofwyr owns a AAA megacorp that he assembled out of purchases made within about 30 years of waking up. My personal he’d cannon is that he ate Musk at some point in this process.
Even the less well known ones have serious stock portfolios and including multiple point shares in megacorps. Dragons took to business rather well as soon as they worked out what share certificates were.
Fair enough. Never played Shadowrun, and didn’t know there were dragons in that system.
I would be curious what year it is set in, and how inflation may affect their currency value vs current real world currency values.
2050s for 1st edition, I think current edition is 2070s. Dragons started waking up in the early 2010s though. There has also been significant geopolitical upheaval, especially in the Americas and Europe. The general assumption is that a nuyen being about 1 modern dollar is about the right ballpark.
Wow! Thanks for the perspective!
Christ what a soulless anti human, and these people infest and run AAA companies. Would explain the rot behind those companies for the last 2 decades.
What a piece of shit.
drive an Uber or whatever, go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.
Shockingly tone-deaf.
When I was laid off, my savings were running very low after about 3 months until I was able to get another job.
Absolutely no way I would be able to take a year off to go to the beach. It’s like he doesn’t realize we all aren’t CEOs.
What? Don’t you all have a beach house and million in the bank?
Death of hosts not the result of excessive bloodsucking, says literal parasite.
Corporate greed is a reason. But it’s not the only one. The other reason is they’re not making games people want to play. Look at Dustborn and Concord.
No self awareness whatsoever
Sony’s EX president is the one who should be driving ubers.
When was the last time he was even in charge of anything? Who cares what his opinion is? He should fuck all the way off.
This is the opening to John Scalzi’s Starter Villain. Great book for anyone interested in a humorous look at late stage capitalist supervillains.
