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Are there any unique characteristics to game development workforce related to healthcare costs or retirement savings? If not, it's not particularly meaningful t
by bko 2y ago
Are there any unique characteristics to game development workforce related to healthcare costs or retirement savings? If not, it's not particularly meaningful to bemoan games as expensive compared to any other labor intensive industry.
- jandrese 2y agoProbably not, healthcare costs are eating America alive. As a country America is willing to try anything except the one thing that has worked everywhere else.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI'm all for universal healthcare and think the system we have in place is idiotic, but other developed countries are struggling with healthcare as well (they'll say their system is the worst, just not as bad as America's). But universal healthcare is one way we can really fix our labor market: by making it a public benefit with mean-based contributions, labor markets would relax a lot: more jobs become viable even if they otherwise don't economically meet the bar to provide healthcare, because they don't need to. No one stresses about losing their healthcare when they lose a job, or want to switch, or have to switch. Similar support for retirement savings would help also.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThe only unique characteristic is how relatively new games are. And as a result any tech leads the US had was quickly closed by EU/Asian markets. So there's more allure than usual to try and tap into that cheaper but still talented labor compared to suffereing in America (even though everyone wants to tap into the American consumers and the USD. But alas).