All the video game industry has to do is to give its workers better treatment than they would get under union stewardship. Problem solved.

But I expect video games will follow the path of many other industries, and keep beating their mules until the mules revolt.

It's a lesson that has played out publicly hundreds of times over the last few centuries, but new overlords always think they're better, smarter, luckier than those who came before them. They never are.