further reinforcing how detached and out of the loop company leadership is, Shawn fails to recognize that "wage slavery", which he has aligned with workers being not included in the profitable outcome of their efforts, has been the norm for a very, very long time. I might even say the dominant force for as long as I can remember. Shawn doesn't seem to know his industry or the people who work in it very well, or his speakings are betraying a more likely scenario; he is reminiscing for the days when he could get people to work 80 hour weeks under a mere PROMISE of a profit sharing benefit while the new model would emphasize work life balance.

the reality is this shift isn't just like, market based, its generational. he's going to find it harder and harder to exploit workers like he did in the past.

Spotify is a subscription service, but they pay the content owners a small royalty per every song listen. Artists are incentivized to produce better music that generates more listens and returns more revenue. (The fact that the amount they pay per play is criminally small is beside the point here, the point being prior existence of a flat customer subscription price wedded to scaling returns.) If Sony wants to have a subscription gaming network without "wage slavery", all they have to do is offer a per-dow

It explains pricing models that can be applied to a lot of different business. Even if the chairman seems quite self serving and disingenuous, nice to read something well written in todays avarice fueled economy.

Welcome to how the rest of the world lives.

Every company I have ever worked for is, "We pay you $X, you work on project Y." I've never received part of the profits from the sales of my work. Unless you count my salary.