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The video game industry needs to learn from the film industry and unionize for better pay and working conditions.

> The video game industry needs to learn from the film industry and unionize for better pay and working conditions.

Is Hollywood a successful business model though? Most movies don't make much in the end - we only see the most successful ones.

"Los Angeles County contributed $656 billion in gross domestic product, or 27 percent of California’s economic output, in 2015, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the most-recent data available from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. That’s the largest amount of goods and services produced among 3,000-plus counties in the U.S. and equal to the economic might of Saudi Arabia."

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:atHjZM...

I'm talking about profits, not revenues.

The entertainment industry makes plenty of money, they just disguise the profits through all kinds of trickery that make what tech companies do with tax shelters look childish by comparison. There’s a whole colloquial term for it, “Hollywood accounting”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

It needs to learn from the VFX industry that unionizing programmers making six figures is hard.

"film industry... better pay and working conditions"

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