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New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable (www.ign.com)

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IGN can exclusively reveal the details from IATSE's 2023 Gameworkers.org Rates and Conditions Survey, where the organization asked hundreds of video game developers about their pay, benefits, and working conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's also, imo, because it's a relatively newer career. Nurses, teachers, mechanics all existed as industries before he decline of labor. I work in biotech, and people have these oblivious conversations on reddit that are like, "I have a masters but can't find a job with any stability or a living wage in my city. What am I doing wrong?"

And each time I explain that what they're doing wrong is trying to get paid under late stage capitalism in a high risk-high reward casino industry filled with foreign visa-holding indentured servants and no one who has ever heard of collective bargaining.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, lab work has the cultural cachet of STEM and knowledge work, but looks a lot more like manual labor in practice. One of the lab planners at my current employer switched careers after getting her master's because pipetting thousands upon thousands of well plates for her research gave her severe repetitive stress injuries that made it unbearable to continue working in the lab.

Biotech has another problem, in that the VC money --and therefore the job market -- is concentrated in a small number of HCOL metros. A friend of mine founded a startup out here in the Midwest, and he struggles to attract enough funding to retain staff who are constantly being lured away to the coasts by better-funded firms offering better pay, even though that money wouldn't go nearly as far in a place like SF or Boston compared to Kansas City.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Missouri state government is a crucial piece of the puzzle there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

He's on the Kansas side, which for all its own foibles is at least not Missouri.

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