While I can sympathize with both points of view, my default position is to try to relate to the injured party. The original author brings up several valid poin

While I can sympathize with both points of view, my default position is to try to relate to the injured party. The original author brings up several valid points about the nonchalance of the video game industry and effectively points out that no matter how much skill or experience one acquires, it's often written off by people who are perhaps too brazen to be in positions of power. Something else to consider is that the job market in Texas is almost certainly less fair than the one in Silicon Valley. Living in Idaho, I've encountered an amazing level of distrust and incredulousness in the jobs I've held. My bosses just didn't expect that a local kid would actually know what he's talking about. Low wages, no benefits, no time off and no job security is what you'll generally find in red states. Churning up and spitting out people who could potentially make the industry better is not something to be proud of. Articles like this are symptomatic of structural problems in the tech world, mostly vast wealth inequality and disenfranchisement from the decision making process. I don't see it changing any time soon until IT workers organize. Maybe that's not the most popular view among some of the nouveau riche libertarians who are on the rise, but I wouldn't expect it to be. The largest found pain in 'Merika right now is the dysfunctional economic system. When that's fixed (and it will be) the profits for the general population will pay out in ways that are difficult to imagine right now. It's going to start with democratization of the workplace. I hope the original author keeps applying his talent to evangelizing what's wrong with the status quo.