Where things get complicated is, the drive to reach the higher tier over a length of time drives us to be better ourselves - learn more, improve soft skills, bu

Where things get complicated is, the drive to reach the higher tier over a length of time drives us to be better ourselves - learn more, improve soft skills, build networks of people who we otherwise would lose touch with, and much more. Sure, fight for better conditions. But you need to keep that drive, too, somehow. Not talking about the gaming industry specifically here, but IT more broadly. Only datacenter employees and government workers have unions, where I live. It's not pretty to work with them. Edit: this is a response primarily to the below comments about top and low salary tier distribution and equalization of pay for the bottom half (or whatever large distribution) via union negotiations for everyone.