The market discounts the coolness factor of being in the game industry, so you effectively pay for being a game developer by crappy work conditions. Regarding

The market discounts the coolness factor of being in the game industry, so you effectively pay for being a game developer by crappy work conditions. Regarding the unionizing unions, I don't think I can express this better than RMS: "All in all, I think it is a mistake to defend people’s rights with one hand tied behind our backs, using nothing except the individual option to say no to a deal. We should use democracy to organize and together impose limits on what the rich can do to the rest of us. That’s what democracy was invented for!" He was talking about human rights but this argument applies as well to work conditions.