• senoro@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Also because valve is private, they don’t have any legal obligations to return maximise profit. They can purposefully lose money if they want and it’s not illegal. (At least to my knowledge)

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, that’s it right there. Not being public means they don’t have to appease shareholders who want maximum growth and returns.

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      1 year ago

      I’m guessing this is a big part of it. A private company can do just about whatever they want as there are not shareholders that you are working for.

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        1 year ago

        Private companies can have shareholders(all nfl teams but the Packers), its just a game of finding shareholders who doesnt care about constant short term profit.