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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

How do you get to be a CEO while being this stupid? Even if he was right, has he never heard the elementary phrase "the customer is always right"? Or more accurately, thousands of customers?

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago

Since when been intelligent is a requirement to be CEO?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wealth, high social status... has nothing to do with competence.

It mostly has to do with how much money you start with, who you know, and dumb luck.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget a complete lack of shame!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

Ah, right yes, I forgot sociopathy.

How silly of me.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Much like the disappearing middle class, the game development market has shifted away from firms of every size and scale to two extremes: countless small indie devs and few massive corporations.

The CEO is confident that you can't get what they offer anywhere else, due to lack of competition at their scale, so it doesn't matter how well the game performs: people will still buy it.

[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You might want to look up the actual meaning of the phrase. It might apply here but not in the way you think. This isn’t early 20th century Sears.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

this is mostly a thing in Western. nobody gives a shit about the customer in my country. they can fuck them

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not even Europe. It's a US thing

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Read the wiki page there is a German and Dutch version in Wikipedia.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Just because there are translations, doesn't mean it was common place.

Sure there are some capitalists with that mindset in just about every country, but in Europe if any company tried to enforce it, the unions would squash it immediately. Because it is dumb and hurts the workers.