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Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

submitted 4 days ago by moreeni@lemm.ee to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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Remember, every time you read about 10, or 100, or 1000 layoffs in the video game industry, they're not cold statistics. Every one of those figures is a person. A life that has been upended, with enormous consequences for not just the individuals directly involved but their family and friends. Every single person affected by layoffs and departures has their own story to tell, their own history in the business and their own motivations for pursuing whatever comes next.

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[–] Didros@beehaw.org 12 points 4 days ago

And there are millions of people lining up for jobs that suck that LITTLE to work at. That is how our world functions. It chews people up and spits them out.

Funny how much we hear about it in the video game industry, but every school closure loses teachers. Every hospital lay off looses nurses. Every time capitalism grinds people into dust, those people are dust now.