Well, the physical engineering world already has an alternative to unionization: contracting firms. The best mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers in

Well, the physical engineering world already has an alternative to unionization: contracting firms. The best mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineers in the world work for big engineering firms (and make mega bucks). We have a few relatively small contracting firms in software right now, but there is no reason why we could not have large Software Engineering firms that can handle entire design and engineering for any game studio far better and more efficiently than the studios could ever do themselves. For example, if the top 1000 game designers and developers started their own firm, then I imagine every studio would be forced to use them at whatever price for competitive reasons. Are you a VC? Invest in that. Insta-monopoly. Top talent (especially in bulk) is very much the most difficult thing to replicate in any market.