Every time I feel like I'm getting a handle on the growth-based nature of capitalism—the idea that the number has to go up, and simply making a profit isn't enough, yadda yadda—a stat in an earnings report clocks me over the head and uproots me from whatever mooring I thought I had. For example, did you know that Microsoft made $27.2 billion in net income in its most recent financial quarter?
That's 27,000 million dollars, or roughly 0.39 Blizzard acquisitions. If we take Glassdoor's median average game developer salary of $81,000 a year at face value, that's enough to pay the salaries of 335,802 developers for a year. If I do any more napkin math I'm gonna make myself too sad.
