PositiveNoise
I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.
I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.
I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.
Slamming track. This album features a bunch of great music production!
That sounds super tasty and fancy. Nice for a special Christmas cocktail!
Great song. Powerful strategic use of dropping the f-bomb, and just an emotionally powerful song overall. It didn’t dramatically change the world, but it got plenty of airplay and it made it’s point.
Old Town Prague is one of the most beautiful city areas in the world. It must cost a fortune to keep that place constantly clean and free of graffiti, but it’s money well spent.
Is it a ‘crisis’ if the industry has been doing the same thing consistently for the last 30 years, or just a terrible industry for the workers, whose enthusiasm for working on games clouds their judgement regarding what they consider acceptable working conditions?
It doesn’t seem like a crisis for the companies if they still get one or two hundred applicants for many positions they post.
Laws need to be enforced, not just created. The article seems to imply that it’s up to individual exploited workers to file official complaints, but many of the exploited workers are illegal aliens or feel way to vulnerable to ‘rock the boat’. Essentially, government should enforce these laws, and be functional. Expecting super poor people living in fear to suddenly fight back one at a time, or expecting them to even find out about new laws that get passed, is very unrealistic.