Come join the Lemmy Starbound Community! I’m the only poster so far 🥺

!starbound@lemmy.ml

  • TPetrichor@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    ‘unpaid child labor’ painted a nasty picture in my head. If you watch the video about it in these comments, it was more like ‘asked 16yr olds to make content and told them it wouldn’t be paid but they might get job offers later (but they never will)’.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t think a indie game development studio would have a sweatshop full of child slaves, so I think my first impression is pretty close to how it was, and that is unpaid labor. The only debatable term is “child” though they were minors. Pretty sleazy to take advantage of passionate teens like that.

      Maybe that’s not so shocking to people when unpaid internships are a thing, but that’s not something I think should exist either.

      It’s disheartening how dirty entertainment industries are on every level. You’d think works of passion would inspire people to treat each other right but if anything seems like the opposite happens.