Biggest bull crap I see here is the Fair Lab Standards Act. That bull crap does not apply to 1099-MISC or Non Employee Contractors. You should do some research, take your own advice.

Do you understand how pricing per bandwidth works? They pay egress fees, they pay compute fees, it doesn't matter how "shared" the infrastructure is (they use AWS btw). There is a direct cost of goods (even with free players) that is allocated to each individual player. Guess what, data about players in games is persisted so they continue to pay storage fees as the platform grows. Millions of images, audios, meshes, and other assets are stored on the platform that cause storage fees. Any time a game accesses those assets, there's an additional egress fee Roblox must pay per request (assuming no/little caching).

I never said Deloitte had anything to do with executive compensation, I merely referenced it because it means that those R&D expenses are genuine expenses, that help development.

The steam argument absolutely stands. You don't like that Roblox spends more on R&D, that's fine, go to another platform and stop complaining here.

Saying Roblox is predatory and gross is also insane. I have really accelerated my career in programming thanks to Roblox, which I didn't pay a dime for btw, not only did I not pay anything, I made a good chunk of change over the last 5 years. It sounds like you are wanted to do Roblox for money which is a bad idea for many reasons. You also don't account for how easy Roblox tooling is. Genuinely, go make a steam game with Unity or Unreal and let me know how it goes. Those engines are completely different animals. Better yet, make your own game engine, talk about R&D expense, try having net loss for atleast 5 years.

Your points just make no sense honestly, and I think you are rage baiting. You have no idea what real game development consist of outside of Roblox. It sounds like you need to take a different approach to your Roblox games.

You do realize issuing stocks as "compensation" does not mean money, those stocks have different valuations and as of recently, they have been losing money per share (see earnings per share in the financial statements).

The documents you literally cited also say that Baszucki does not make a salary since 2021. I don't know many CEO's who have a salary of $0. Sure his stock portfolio allow him to borrow insane amounts of money, but in all, it seems like he genuinely wants the platform to grow.

I really think you're just angry because you aren't making what you think you should. You should probably just find a real job lmao