It's actually canonical that part of the reason Kiryu gets into so many street fights is that older yakuza explicitly bullshit younger yakuza about him being an easy mark as a form of hazing
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The proper way to do a Lore episode about Homestuck is to make it actually about Problem Sleuth.
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I hope this further fuels games unionization efforts
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Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
They definitely do, because bringing in untrained labor with no experience would have a tangible impact on their product.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
If the whole of Activision agreed to unionise, Activision would be totally fucked. That's a monumental task, but if it happened it would turn off their lights. There are not enough exploitable graduates to replace an entire workforce, and they would be attempting to replace years of institutional knowledge overnight.
The workers have all the power in this situation. Any one individual at the company can doubtless be replaced if they make a fuss. The idea that all of them can be replaced is not true.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
You're right, we should get rid of the executives and have the workers own the company
If everyone at Activision walked out in a union strike, it would probably shut off their lights. They couldn't afford for that to happen for even a single week. WoW would go offline, imagine the lost revenue from that alone. Maybe they can get a scab to do basic server upkeep, but I wouldn't guarantee it. Do they then pay out credits to subscribers who didn't get to play their game? That's millions of dollars, or risk of a class action lawsuit.
Activision would either capitulate immediately to union demands or simply shutter the company. Strikes are incredibly powerful, the hard part is getting the employees to realise that.
Kotick could be out there strangling puppies and it wouldn't stop them making ten trillion dollars selling loot boxes.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
Remember the longest government shutdown that ended just a few weeks ago in the US? It didn't end because of anything politicians did. It ended because a union of flight attendants said 'this is fucked, fix it or we aren't coming to work' and them not coming to work would have caused so much disruption to US travel, both business and commercial, the US executive caved immediately, just at the threat of air transit being disrupted for even one day.
Companies spend a lot of time and money strategizing ways to hide it, but workers have all the power.
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I guess I'm just too much of a pessimist to believe that such change is possible.
If everyone at Activision walked out in a union strike, it would probably shut off their lights. They couldn't afford for that to happen for even a single week. WoW would go offline, imagine the lost revenue from that alone. Maybe they can get a scab to do basic server upkeep, but I wouldn't guarantee it. Do they then pay out credits to subscribers who didn't get to play their game? That's millions of dollars, or risk of a class action lawsuit.
Activision would either capitulate immediately to union demands or simply shutter the company. Strikes are incredibly powerful, the hard part is getting the employees to realise that.
The hardest part is getting a contact list going to generate interest without management finding out and immediately firing the organizers / instigators.
this is what the cartoon evil version of a company would do
this is what real life versions of companies have BEEN doing
they usually don't say it like this! the normal real life evil companies (that is to say, all companies) will at least separate the record profits from the exact same call as the announcement of massive layoffs.
I guess I'm just too much of a pessimist to believe that such change is possible.
The nuclear option outlined above is probably unlikely, because getting 9000 people to pull in the same direction is very difficult. Getting 20% of them, even 10%, to strike would still cause enormous disruption and be essentially unsustainable for Activision. Imagine trying to fill 900 job vacancies, even low level ones, on short notice.
I guess I'm just too much of a pessimist to believe that such change is possible.
The nuclear option outlined above is probably unlikely, because getting 9000 people to pull in the same direction is very difficult. Getting 20% of them, even 10%, to strike would still cause enormous disruption and be essentially unsustainable for Activision. Imagine trying to fill 900 job vacancies, even low level ones, on short notice.
I could imagine a domino effect too if they don't capitulate totally and immediately. Where they continue to lose more labor to support of the strike the longer the management holds out.
The problem is I imagine activision corporate culture isn't going to be attractive to a lot of people in favor of organized labor.
This system is set up to reward companies for massive layoffs, or rather, it's set up to reward executives for massive layoffs. This isn't going to stop without a number of things changing. Unionizing, at the very least, will at least mitigate the effect on the people who actually suffer the consequences, and would probably also help with the shitload of other indignities game companies force on their employees.
Unionising is an important step, but honestly this should be an actual, literal crime that executives go to prison for. This is beyond market solutions.
Unionising is an important step, but honestly this should be an actual, literal crime that executives go to prison for. This is beyond market solutions.
You cshould be able to make a case for embezzlement; with executives taking away labor costs from the company (and the associated revenue generated from said labor), and enriching themselves.
Unionising is an important step, but honestly this should be an actual, literal crime that executives go to prison for. This is beyond market solutions.
You cshould be able to make a case for embezzlement; with executives taking away labor costs from the company (and the associated revenue generated from said labor), and enriching themselves.
Unionising is an important step, but honestly this should be an actual, literal crime that executives go to prison for. This is beyond market solutions.
You cshould be able to make a case for embezzlement; with executives taking away labor costs from the company (and the associated revenue generated from said labor), and enriching themselves.
Oh but they do that every day
It's like they are thieving... Wages?
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Unionising is an important step, but honestly this should be an actual, literal crime that executives go to prison for. This is beyond market solutions.
You cshould be able to make a case for embezzlement; with executives taking away labor costs from the company (and the associated revenue generated from said labor), and enriching themselves.
Oh but they do that every day
It's like they are thieving... Wages?
We call that embezzlement.
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the one where it was destroyed in a nuclear war, if I remember my fist of the north star intro right
Hmm, that doesn't answer the question, more research is needed
Looking forward to the Kamurocho Historia to sort it all out
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if they left out the alt history stuff i might be interested, but that bullshit feels like it has to be addressed on a podcast all about the lore and
no thank you, especially in light of recent releases
ugh, that's actually a good point
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Did anyone want to argue that EA is the worst publisher still or
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EA is also responsible for thousands of lost jobs that could have been avoided if not for unreasonable greed.
At this point I'm fine calling them both garbage companies and not touching their output ever again.
it's awful, but what is there to be done? These companies are just unstoppable moneymaking juggernauts. Its a race to the bottom. The smallest amount of effort / employee cost for the maximum amount of revenue.
Unionize
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you're not wrong, but I doubt they'd let that happen. They don't need unionised workers when they have thousands of exploitable fresh graduates willing to work 24/7 for a pittance just to be in the industry.
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They definitely do, because bringing in untrained labor with no experience would have a tangible impact on their product.
I refer you to the betgirl's post above
If the whole of Activision agreed to unionise, Activision would be totally fucked. That's a monumental task, but if it happened it would turn off their lights. There are not enough exploitable graduates to replace an entire workforce, and they would be attempting to replace years of institutional knowledge overnight.
The workers have all the power in this situation. Any one individual at the company can doubtless be replaced if they make a fuss. The idea that all of them can be replaced is not true.
You're right, we should get rid of the executives and have the workers own the company
Activision would either capitulate immediately to union demands or simply shutter the company. Strikes are incredibly powerful, the hard part is getting the employees to realise that.
this is what the cartoon evil version of a company would do
Remember the longest government shutdown that ended just a few weeks ago in the US? It didn't end because of anything politicians did. It ended because a union of flight attendants said 'this is fucked, fix it or we aren't coming to work' and them not coming to work would have caused so much disruption to US travel, both business and commercial, the US executive caved immediately, just at the threat of air transit being disrupted for even one day.
Companies spend a lot of time and money strategizing ways to hide it, but workers have all the power.
this is what real life versions of companies have BEEN doing
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The hardest part is getting a contact list going to generate interest without management finding out and immediately firing the organizers / instigators.
they usually don't say it like this! the normal real life evil companies (that is to say, all companies) will at least separate the record profits from the exact same call as the announcement of massive layoffs.
The nuclear option outlined above is probably unlikely, because getting 9000 people to pull in the same direction is very difficult. Getting 20% of them, even 10%, to strike would still cause enormous disruption and be essentially unsustainable for Activision. Imagine trying to fill 900 job vacancies, even low level ones, on short notice.
I could imagine a domino effect too if they don't capitulate totally and immediately. Where they continue to lose more labor to support of the strike the longer the management holds out.
The problem is I imagine activision corporate culture isn't going to be attractive to a lot of people in favor of organized labor.
You cshould be able to make a case for embezzlement; with executives taking away labor costs from the company (and the associated revenue generated from said labor), and enriching themselves.
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Oh but they do that every day
Yeah sorry, I'm pretty sure my tweet solidified the decision.
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It's like they are thieving... Wages?
We call that embezzlement.