
The games industry sucks - Lemmy.world
Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the
recent layoffs from Epic Games.
I’d really love to see this type of outrage for people with PdDs getting laid off from universities who make shit pay and teach lit classes living out of their cars. Cry me a river, tech professionals. Not that I have anything against tech professionals, etc. But, you know, it would be really nice for people to get a view of the world as it is. I’m a humanities professional, and, thankfully, doing quite well today. I was laid off in the stock market crash of 2008 because I was working at a private, Catholic university in Worcester, MA with investments. That year, they laid off 1000 workers. All of us working our asses off for a fraction of the salary those guys were making that were laid off. Sorry, but my heart strings aren’t pulled. I’ll tell them what they might have told me at the bar or something: “Sorry, bro. A door closes, another one opens.”
The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it’s for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.
The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.
I’m not showing contempt or lack of empathy. I’m showing that people on here don’t care about other workers other than the ones that work in computer-related industries, which salary-wise can afford to be laid off. Cry me a river. Your nasty response shows me that you have no compassion for workers in other industries or professions that are, on average, overqualified and make less money when they are employed. You’re the type of person that got an F in High School English class and just like video games. Nothing intelligent here in your comment. I made a real argument about things how they are about the job market. Your response is weak and not convincing me. Most of all because science is always favored over humanities in the world at large. You don’t care about anything else except the industry you are into. You’re into the video game industry. You only care about the workers who were laid off in the video game industry. Other workers that were laid off, it seems to me, don’t matter to you. You’re attentive to this news story not because of workers, but because of video games.
Boy howdy, you sure are committed to your idiot perspective aren’t you?