“Big companies will refuse to do small, cheap projects (think $1 million or less) that are almost guaranteed to make a profit, because they wouldn’t make enough money,” Kai says. “We’ve hit a point where if the profit isn’t eight or nine digits, it somehow doesn’t count.” The result is a hollowing out of the middle, as it were, where the only projects that get made are resource-intensive blockbusters or no-budget indie games.”

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@aburtch A guess: Employers in "cool" fields are more comfortable than average with exploiting their workforce.

Source: Worked for multiple comic book stores.