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blake8086
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Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain
Make something people want, but not too much?
philwelch
on Nov 28, 2011
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Some people want crack. That doesn't make crack dealers honorable professionals.
wr1472
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Only two kinds of people call their customers "users"; drug dealers and software developers.
dasil003
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Of course the only reason we deem them generally dishonorable is because the government declared cocaine illegal.
philwelch
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That's not the
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reason. Tobacco is legal, and people consider tobacco companies dishonorable.
dasil003
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Because of what they did to deceive the public. The alcohol companies don't have the same problem.
101010010101
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Nor does it make those who produce crack "talented".
The only drain is the one caused by Farmville itself. The one that the time goes down.
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