It's risk vs reward. If the company goes public/gets bought out by a bigger company, they will earn way more money than what they would have with that higher salary.
You just said we need to bribe employees to not be scumbags and steal IP for another company. That’s corporate espionage not risk/ reward.
Besides, those higher salaries don't exist when all of the companies collude with each other to keep salaries low and enforce non compete clauses like Google and Apple were busted for doing a few years ago.
You mean collude with the government to spam employee visas to China and India which keeps salaries artificially low. How many smaller companies are spamming H-1B visas to fill positions? If you think wages are low now, just wait until you get compartmentalized with cut hours and no benefits because it will be cheaper to contract employees for short durations than run the risk of losing IP to poaching. This will do exactly what what “Obamacare” did to the workplace initially, full time becomes to costly, so now you’re a contractor just under the minimum requirement for health insurance.
The Jak series, timesplitters, god of war 1+2, ico, gran turismo 3-4, silent hill 2, ace combat 4, mgs2+3, dark cloud, tekken. The PS2 was stacked with exclusives that completely dominated the market. Game writing definitely peaked in the early 2000s.
Some other easy ones: grandia collection still holds up and grandia 2 is one of my favorite rpgs of all time, I picked it up on sale on switch and it was worth it. An easy cheap pick up for quality- persona 4 golden, by far the best psp rpg now on steam. I heard the MGS collection got censored, but all the original games are worth playing. Strategy wise it’s never been easier to emulate GBA classics like Fire emblem, Tatics Ogre, advanced war, etc.
This is a completely inane argument. If a company researches, creates, and produces an ip, then gooogle comes along, drops a couple million to poach 3 employees with knowledge and experience on the IP, you just lost everything, simply because morons like you don’t understand business is more than input/output and are applauding destroying non competes that only last until the product they were designing is launched. If an employee is not cattle, then a business isn’t a grazing field.
You’ll see, this is going to blow up massively on us. The FTC is now allowing employee poaching which is what non competes were designed to stop in the first place. This is only going to benefit corporate socialism and the oligarchic regulatory structures.
Breitbart archive: https://archive.ph/0942g
Variety archive: https://archive.ph/EQG6B
ESG/DEI is clearly a loss leader for Hollywood/legacy media, we know they won’t course correct, and we know our tax dollars will be used to keep legacy media bailed out in the near future.
People talk about Clark because she’s the current prop. People “talked” about women’s soccer with the same fervor until last year when they showed how irrelevant they are last year. It’s all hype circulation that will flame out the second she underperforms or the appeal fades. Female sports is the new virtue signaling for moderates/ “conservatives” as it fits both the gynocentric narrative of “equality” and the political pandering to women.
Viewer numbers are always a lie, it’s always merch and ticket sales that show actual value/ consumer activity. This is the CNN airport scam, they throw on the “sport” as background noise in enough buildings and Boom! Instant viewer ratings!
It’s an artificial movement propped up by esg dollars and social engineering, this is no different that the pretend hype we saw behind female soccer players a year or two ago and female tennis before that. They only exist in anyone’s brains because of advertising and promotions, not any actual athletic talent.
Non competes are far, far from perfect and have inherent flaws when used by large companies as you said. Doing away with it entirely however will lead to mass employment poaching. It’s the inverse of killing small companies by selling at a loss until you have price control, you simply outspend them until you can clone their IP or carrion feed from the business going under.