• FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Valve is the living proof that you can have great service and still be profitable. Will capitalists learn? No

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      4 months ago

      Why have great service and be profitable when you can have terrible service and be 1.6% more profitable?

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        4 months ago

        Correction: Be just as profitable but cash out on that profit slightly sooner.

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          More like far less profitable over years, but far more this quarter. And when it inevitably goes south because you’re squeezing too hard? Who cares, on to the next company!