Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
by merpnderp on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:57PM
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So let me get this straight. You think it is justice for me to be unemployed because my employer can’t afford to pay me $180k/year to write internal software because they will magically use technology to do without me? More likely they would go without, because if there was magic to replace me they’d already be doing it.
Re:Anime is booming, so why are animators living in poverty?
by IQunder130 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @11:58AM
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How is it "more efficient" when individuals who can do the job are not allowed to do the job because of some arbitrary price control floor? Literally nobody in society benefits from this arrangement besides a tiny class of programmers who can actually command that kind of salary. What you are recommending is the classic kind of supply constriction rent-seeking behaviour that used to ensure economic growth was utterly impossible in most economies.
No, it would be good, because it would mean that they were more efficiently utilizing their current workforce, probably through technological advancement that should ultimately benefit the entire industry. Technology is almost entirely driven through higher labor costs and dictating better conditions for employees. The benefits of technology improvements are also not zero-sum (equal to their costs to develop or maintain), and are redistributed through those higher salaries and through taxes.
If you end up unemployed at that wage level because your skill level has not made the new cut, there are other things you can do. Wanting to program but not being able to find somebody who wants you to program at the minimum wage is no more tragic than wanting to program but not being able to pay your rent doing it.