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Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by warent on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:20AM (#28772815)
this is a tired old complaint and anybody could say the same about pretty much any job that pays more than their own.

Telling blue collar workers you work in tech usually gets a nearly identical reaction to what you just gave. etc etc.

Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:59AM (#28773281)
Yeah, and what's wrong with that reaction? I'm supposed to just accept this stuff?

The blue collar workers are right too. They should be getting paid a lot more. Certainly not less than streamers. It's not fair and I refuse to accept it.

Come to think of it, advertisers seem to be a major cause of these distortions. They distort the value of activities that happen to have an audience. Yet another reason to block ads: help restore balance to society by ensuring people are properly rewarded for the actual value of their work instead of how many eyeballs they can summon.

Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by nlitened on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:20AM (#28773499)
Why wouldn’t you start a business, and pay blue collar workers what they deserve?
Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:34AM (#28773647)
Because that's not the field of work I chose for myself. I do see construction workers on a daily basis though. I also know the owner of a construction company, he's part of my extended family. The wealth disparity between the workers and my family member is obscene. There's no way I'll ever believe they couldn't be paid better wages.
Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by zthrowaway on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:36AM (#28784525)
There’s a very large nearly endless supply of laborers that can do this type of work though. The more niche your skill set the higher you can demand in pay. This is economics 101. You are putting this into a moral space that doesn’t reflect economic realities.
Re:Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been ... by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:03AM (#28784699)
So? There are so many economic realities which we explicitly disallow. Monopolies, for example. Why should this exploitation be allowed to go on?