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Diablo Devs Unionize Following Layoffs And Dissatisfaction With AI, Pay (aftermath.site)
submitted 1 week ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Tech workers finding out a little too late

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I mean, for years and years, even after the dotcom bubble, developers have been able to get crazy high salaries, job security, and tons of other perks. Now that that's gone, at least they're doing something. So many other professions just rolled over and let the businesses fuck them (looking at you, every industry from Virginia down, especially mining)

Edit: the comment I'm replying to says "tech workers", not just game devs. Game devs have unfortunately always been the poorly treated little black sheep of the tech world.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That just reveals that those workers are selfish, pretentious assholes who are all about getting theirs. Even your response shows that with the backhanded comment

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, when you're being treated more fairly by your employer, you may not consider that forming a union is still necessary in the inevitable event that they rug pull those benefits at some point.

And I've got nothing against miners (other than standard environmental concerns), but when they keep voting for the people that strip away every small gain their ancestors literally fought and died for, I stop having sympathy.

Also, what on earth are primarily West Coast based tech workers gonna do about miners in the Virginias? There's an entire continent between them.

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