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by Apocryphon 462 days ago
> you won't be able to compete with game devs from lower CoL countries.

I mean, those devs might unionize as well. Certainly would've helped both the ZA/UM and CD Projekt Red devs, for different reasons.
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FirmwareBurner 462 days ago
>I mean, those devs might unionize as well.

The word "might" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. If unionization in Asia was so easy we would have seen it happen a long time ago, but what we saw instead was suicide nets on buildings.

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Apocryphon 462 days ago
That caricature was so long ago a new caricature (from seven years ago) has emerged to lampoon it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpB9Aeq8lUA

Granted, I have no doubt that the work culture is much tougher than in North America. But even the Chinese government has recognized 996 and taken steps to address it.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/china-neijuan-invo...

Also, Foxconn manufacturing isn't exactly the same thing as NetEase video game development, even if they both exist within the same labor environment.

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FirmwareBurner 461 days ago
>That caricature

Foxconn workers killing themselves by jumping off their office budling is a caricature to you? How out of touch can you be?

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Apocryphon 461 days ago
Those tragedies largely ended after 2011. One would assume things have changed since then.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/apple-foxconn-factory-c...

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