• FluorideMind@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    This will/has become the norm. Finish a project, lay off 60% of the team, skeleton crew keeps crunching fixes, pay the suits the profit and wages saved.

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      22 hours ago

      And it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

        Maybe. Or maybe companies like EA would implode under their own dysfunction and leave a multi-billion dollar hole in the industry for China to fill.

        A lot of American companies do seem willing to commit suicide before they pay their workers equitably

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        20 hours ago

        like a union. almost as if unions were created to protect the working class in the first place from these fat cats doing excatly this