Satsuma wrote:
Why because he says “[bad working practices] isn’t just a Rockstar issue; it’s not just a game industry issue; it’s believed most US employees [are subjected similar working pressures]?” Let’s be fair, if we’re being honest we wouldn’t buy most products if we knew what happens behind the curtains. And a ome of them we are all too readily aware and close our eyes to them. We buy inter alia clothes, mobile phones and food products from companies that exploit their workers. We use service industries that exploit their staff and subject them to low wages. Every day we buy something that is probably hurting someone else without questioning it.
And I’ll probably just buy it, rave about it and not think twice about the poor sods making those 3D barrels. I’m just not sure there’s an answer here.
I completely agree with you, we know full well that exploitation of other human beings is behind an awful lot of the things we take for granted and enjoy on a daily basis, and yet we're basically all complicit in it (myself included) because we continue to hand over our money to get the things we want.
It's just ugly when it bubbles to the surface like this, but it's easier to ignore it and carry on than actually propose or commit to a course of action that would change anything.
The wholesale collective unionisation of workers across the globe would be an interesting proposition, but then we'd probably moan about how all our shit just got more expensive, even if it means people in China stop throwing themselves off high buildings to escape another month of making our fucking mobile phones.