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Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by deogeo on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:56PM (#18992311)
> If employees don't like it, they're free to leave.

They're also free to bargain collectively. Why should 'freedom' mean capital consolidates and organizes as much as it likes, while labour is reduced to isolated workers making individual choices?

Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by crankylinuxuser on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:33PM (#18992627)
Its 80 years of propaganda that makes people think like this. It is to be expected, since many of these beliefs are from emotion, and not from cold business logic.

The cold business logic says to consolidate and make partnerships/business unions.

Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by Zarath on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:36PM (#18994148)
Shh, stop ruining the capitalist narrative.
Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by RHSeeger on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:12PM (#18993564)
In many cases, that also means

> I don't like doing this, so nobody else is allowed to do this for you either.

Unions very often prevent non-union labor and, as such, enforce their own desires on others. Don't get me wrong, sometimes that's necessary. But there are negatives involved in unions, just like there are positives.

Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by Zarath on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:37PM (#18994154)
Ok? And what about game companies who prevent people who want work-life balance from being game developers? 2 sides of the coin.
Re:Nearly Half of Game Developers Want to Unionize by RHSeeger on Thursday January 24, 2019 @07:48PM (#18994523)
Positives and negatives. 2 sides to the coin. The tone of your post makes it sound like you disagree with me. The argument of your post agrees with me.