Comment on IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like debuty editor Alice Bell

Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Someone should remind them that they didn’t do it the last hundred years or so because the alternative was angry mobs trying to kill them.

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  • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone should remind the angry mobs that they should be angry mobs.

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• aquafunk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They care about being able to hire labor, which we provide, and they care about revenue and profit, which we also provide. Not defending any behavior, but the consequences in a healthy economy would largely come from customers, potential and current employees. Failing that, large issues would be overcome by regulations, or at least enforcing existing ones (codified rules against monopolies, for examples, are just words if not enforced).

  Without consumers willing (and able) to make sacrifices (like paying higher prices) to reward good corporate behavior, and to avoid companies with purely short-term profit motivated behavior, this is what we can and should expect. Nevermind companies are rewarded by shareholder and investor support based more on profits than.how those profits were made, especially when many of those shareholders feel forced to turn to the stock market to fund their retirement, as pensions are so increasingly a rare option.

  Would voting for fresh representatives possibly increase instability in out daily lives? Is that instability a possibly necessary cost of maintaining effective regulation of the investor class that has captured our legislative system to their own benefit?

  There are systemic problems at play here- not to downplay the choices this individual company made, but the focus could be on the larger forces at work. If your first reaction is that boycotts and choices by consumers and employees, no matter how organized and widespread, do not work, then I ask you, dear reader, to consider what might work to make the necessary systemic changes, and what, if anything, you can do to help make them happen.

  The investor class has made it clear what their playbook is, as they have time and time again thru history: explotation, and as much of it as they can get away with. The question then becomes what us, the ever-increasingly exploited, are going to do about it.

  no war but class war.

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  • wrekone@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for eloquently saying what I often struggle to convey. I’m saving this comment for later reference.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Without consumers willing (and able) to make sacrifices (like paying higher prices) to reward good corporate behavior, and to avoid companies with purely short-term profit motivated behavior, this is what we can and should expect.

    I think consumers have spoken, at least in part. What money can be made doing this job is more easily made on YouTube.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Which sucks due to the innate near-inability of a Youtube video to carry an argument without a visual component well.

      It’s why podcasts can be decent for some topics, but youtube is just someone talking a podcast into the camera for 45 minutes, and all of it would be ~5 minutes reading a single paragraph at most if it were in written form but you really really realy got to chase those ad-impressions.

      Non-textual forms for textual content have really been their own destructive blight on internet content. :'(

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      • aquafunk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I find myself immediately opening the video transcript for many videos. creating a well made video that offers more than a few paragraphs of text is often a challenge

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I get my gaming news from YouTube podcasts, mostly; at least those two do employ people actually doing some of that same type of work. It doesn’t really matter how good Schreier is at his job when I’m not going pay for a Bloomberg subscription and someone else can more cheaply copy the same content and tell me what it said. The video format gives me more of a dialogue with the person who did the work. Plus ads are much more easily defeated on a web page than on YouTube, though they are still partially defeated.

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