The capital being invested has already been taxed at the source.
Capital gains shouldn’t even be taxed. I earned it, paid taxes on it; what I do with it beyond that is no one’s business. I’m the one taking the risk yet the government benefits if that risk pays off but doesn’t compensate me if it doesn’t.
This isn’t about the billionaires. What is an immense amount of money for individuals (100 billions) really isn’t that significant for a Western government like the United States.
Seizing Bezos/Gates wealth would have very little impact on the overall health of the country, the government is working with trillions already
I think we’re ignoring scale here. Is there a country with similar population levels that provides all that?
I’m Canadian and I am thankful for our benefits but our public services have been stretched for decades and I’m skeptical that our systems could handle 10x the population.
There’s a huge gap between the game industry and the rest
People do it out of passion, I guess. It’s funny too because the work is usually significantly harder than the much better paid start-up/SaaS jobs.
Everyone has college degrees, there’s no C++ bootcamp grads
I went to a school which was well-known for its game dev degree so I know dozens of people in the industry (mostly everyone works at Ubisoft) but opted out myself because the pay was way too low
They’re likely earning ~40-70k so the shift isn’t very significant
The real question is: are they changing the deadlines? Studio already suffer from crunch and all the meetings you had on Friday are now spread throughout the week
In my experience, having an up to date LinkedIn profile is more than enough.
I have no presence online, I don't do open-source, I went to an absolute no-name regional school, my work experience is nothing more than "Company, title, date range" and I worked for unknown companies for the majority of my career. I constantly get contacted by recruiters and I got all my jobs through LinkedIn still
I am now in a leadership position at a very competitive public company with a market cap over 100b (to illustrate that this works in general)
Companies are desperate and will interview anyone half-decent. If anything, resume is a red flag. I interview more than 100 people a year and I haven't read a resume in years
120-150k is closer to the average I would say if you work for a public company or a well funded start-up
Top of band for Senior at Shopify is low 200s (varies a bit depending on USD exchange rates) without stock appreciation and it's not particularly competitive
Capital gains shouldn’t even be taxed. I earned it, paid taxes on it; what I do with it beyond that is no one’s business. I’m the one taking the risk yet the government benefits if that risk pays off but doesn’t compensate me if it doesn’t.