Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S.

Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by mbesto on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:02AM (#34247179)

Gaming software engineers, relative to a FAANG engineer for example, are willing to work for less money, work in worse conditions due to a tradeoff for working in a field they are fanatically passionate about. It doesn't matter whether they should or should not be, it just is. That's what those engineers are willing to do. Gaming companies exploit this for profit. If you were a for-profit organization you would do the same - the market is telling you to do it. Whether that is evil or not is up for you to decide.

Same thing happens in fashion, media and entertainment.

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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by pixl97 on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @03:02PM (#34250619)

>Same thing happens in fashion, media and entertainment.

And many of those industries unionized to prevent the systematic abuse!

If there was a headline

"Abuser abused many girlfriends in a row" you'd excuse their behavior saying there are plenty of other guys out there they could go with instead.

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Re:Microsoft Workers to Form Company’s First Union in the U.S. by mbesto on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @07:45PM (#34254254)

> you'd excuse their behavior saying there are plenty of other guys out there they could go with instead.

Where was I excusing it? I was simply laying out the market reality. If you want to say certain classes of professions "deserve" less or more money, then shouldn't we expand this discussion to all professions (teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc.)? No one is really saying they deserve less, but rather that this is the market reality.

If gaming devs want to unionize then that's their prerogative.

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