Can Valve's 'Bossless' Company Model Work Elsewhere?

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 3, 2013 @11:41AM from the missing-a-lot-of-work-lately dept.

glowend writes "I just listened to a fascinating podcast with Valve's economist-in-residence, Yanis Varoufakis, about the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve where there is no hierarchy or bosses. Teams of software designers join spontaneously to create and ship video games without any top-down supervision. Varoufakis discussed the economics of this Hayekian workplace and how it actually functions alongside Steam — a gaming platform created by Valve. I kept wondering: assuming that his description of Valve is accurate, can this model work for other tech companies?"

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Re:No by 0123456 · 2013-03-03 13:14 · Score: 0, Troll

But universal basic income is a sound idea,
No, it's one of the dumbest ideas I've seen spread across the Internet lately.

and modern capitalism's worst fear (how can you enslave those who have choice?), giving me two reasons to love it.
How are you going to give a 'universal basic income' to everyone without enslaving those who produce that wealth in the first place? They have a choice: until you send them to the inevitable gulags, they can say 'screw you' and stay at home instead of working.