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How different is that from at-will employment though? You can be fired at any time and for more or less any non-federally-protected reason (and can quit any tim
by shadowfox 5y ago
How different is that from at-will employment though? You can be fired at any time and for more or less any non-federally-protected reason (and can quit any time too). That seems pretty uncontroversial in the US at least.
- devit 5y agoIn most cases there are multiple employers for any job who pay similar wages so one can go work for some other employer if one fires them. But in the Twitch, YouTube, Amazon, etc. cases there is no other platform that pays the same.
- bilbo0s 5y agoBut in the Twitch, YouTube, Amazon, etc. cases there is no other platform that pays the same. Did you not just enumerate 3 different organizations in your comment?
- gh-throw 5y agoFor three different “jobs”, though.
- bilbo0s 5y agoI don't know man? Do "Twitch Streamer" and "YouTube Streamer" really constitute different "jobs"? (I mean, to the extent that they are "jobs" at all, I consider them the same "job".)
- gh-throw 5y agoAmazon: author YouTube: Youtuber Twitch (as discussed elsewhere in the thread): eSports tournament competitors
- enjoythecode 5y agoThere are thousands of other employers you can apply to and work for. You'll be unemployed in the short term, but getting fired isn't catastrophic long-term, for the most part. The parallel doesn't really exist for Twitch. Other than perhaps YouTube, are there any platforms that would get you anywhere close to the pool of potential users on Twitch?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoIt's a good thing that there are 10.75 million employers in the United States. It has a little something for everyone.
- madeofpalk 5y agoTwitch has reasonable competition - YouTube and to a significantly lesser extent Facebook Gaming. But let’s take a step back here - no one is entitled to be a Full time professional streamer. Say you do something egregious (or not) and get banned from all streaming sites - just go get another job? Twitch doesn’t have a monopoly on employment.
- kingTug 5y agoIt isn’t “controversial” in the US bc labor has no power. At-will employment is a gross, anti-labor practice that america has been brainwashed into thinking is normal.