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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by 3pt14159 »

mothballed wrote: post #83
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #79

That's very cool. They don't say whether or not it's retroactive, though (I'll bet not). I am astounded at some of the starting salaries, these days. Kids, right out of school, make more than I ever did, at the peak of my career. And can't afford a house. My father never made more than about $40K, but had a house in Potomac, two cars, and a stay-at-home wife. Money ain't what it used to be.

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I’m sorry but this comment is hysterical. I have experience with construction and engineering and I shudder to think what type of monstrosity you’ve built.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by akerl_ »

epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida.

Does it?

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

CM30 wrote: post #34
leetrout wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off topic: what are you enjoying lately? Most of the games I have bought work on switch 1 but the screen and controls on the switch 2 are better. I regret buying caravan sandwitch because it's so hard to see with my aging eyes but it is nice to play it anywhere. Always curious to hear what others enjoy about it to help me have less regret in my $600 investment in Mario kart

Donkey Kong Bananza is probably my Switch 2 game of choice. Like it may not be marketed as such, but it's probably somewhere on par with Super Mario Odyssey in terms of game design and mechanics, and has the craziest ending sequence I've ever seen in a video game. It is a really solid 3D platformer, and does to Donkey Kong what Super Mario 64 did to Super Mario Bros/World. The DLC is really fun too, though whether it…

Galaxy 1&2 have visual upgrades.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by t-3 »

snapcaster wrote: post #67
dismalaf wrote: post #48

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US tech wages are insanely inflated compared to, well, everywhere.

I hate this crab in a bucket framing. It's so anti-working person. Why isn't it that wages are insanely deflated compared to the US?

People can achieve a high standard of living anywhere in the world on half or a quarter of what goes for normal in SV tech. The valuations of these companies are even more inflated than their wages, and most of them aren't even profitable and don't have good prospects. Bubbles benefit some people, but they're a sign of dysfunction and I don't believe that the proper reaction to a sign of deep societal dysfunction is to celebrate that a few thousands of people can make a lot of money out of it.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by mothballed »

3pt14159 wrote: post #101
mothballed wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I’m sorry but this comment is hysterical. I have experience with construction and engineering and I shudder to think what type of monstrosity you’ve built.

My grandpa built a similar house under similar level of scrutiny roughly at the same point in life as I did, it was still standing and in good order when he died. At this point it's basically already paid for itself vs rent even valued at $0.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by eloisant »

epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

Comparing prices between Japan and Europe or US is strongly skewed by the weak yen.

The fact that the JPY has lost a lot of value compared to the US dollar has nothing to do with how prices or salaries in Japan evolve.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

mothballed wrote: post #105
3pt14159 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m sorry but this comment is hysterical. I have experience with construction and engineering and I shudder to think what type of monstrosity you’ve built.

My grandpa built a similar house under similar level of scrutiny roughly at the same point in life as I did, it was still standing and in good order when he died. At this point it's basically already paid for itself vs rent even valued at $0.

Not sure where you live, but in my area -even if it's a great house- it would not end well.

We have some pretty heavy-duty local township bureaucrats.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by arjie »

mothballed wrote: post #83
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #79

That's very cool. They don't say whether or not it's retroactive, though (I'll bet not). I am astounded at some of the starting salaries, these days. Kids, right out of school, make more than I ever did, at the peak of my career. And can't afford a house. My father never made more than about $40K, but had a house in Potomac, two cars, and a stay-at-home wife. Money ain't what it used to be.

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It’s true that you don’t need much expertise to build the house but electric and plumbing does need some, no? You don’t need to sell the property perhaps but how did you get labor? Surely you didn’t just do it all yourself.

I have to say, pretty cool all told if you managed this!

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by [deleted] »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #26
high_na_euv wrote: post #4

I thought it is common in big companies to raise salaries by x% every year?

Not in all / not anymore. I'm in Canada a 300k IT/consulting company and rated top performer several years in a row. No raises last couple of years, before that it was 0.49 and 1% respectively. This year there was zero salary increase for anybody in our branch.

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by gruez »

genxy wrote: post #87
dismalaf wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

US tech wages are insanely inflated compared to, well, everywhere.

US tech wages are what everyone should be making. Tech looks high compared to everyone else, but it is more that everyone else's wages got suppressed.

>Tech looks high compared to everyone else, but it is more that everyone else's wages got suppressed.

Where do you draw the line? Maybe everyone should be earning $10M/year like AI researchers, and anything to the contrary means it's "suppressed"?

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