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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9224730" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>It's better if you don't put words in my mouth that I never said. What I said was <em>what are you going to do about it</em>?</p><p></p><p>Do you think angry fans are going to stop this round of layoffs? Or the next? How, exactly, does that work? Because the most likely scenario I see is if people buy fewer WotC products, that there will be MORE layoffs at WotC.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Short-term, my idea is to support those who lost their jobs by following their public accounts and listening to what they say they need and whatever project they get involved with next. So far, it sounds like many of them are reasonably OK with the severance, so it's mostly about ensuring that they can do what they're good at in their next role, too.</p><p></p><p>Medium-term, the idea is to unionize D&D. Paizo already has a union, so there's easy precedent.</p><p></p><p>Long-term, the goal is clearly fully automated luxury space communism.</p><p></p><p>I'm of the opinion that, even in a well-run industry where people get paid a living wage to work making a great game, layoffs are going to happen for the forseeable future, and sometimes happen in big ways. The world's a messy place. Investments don't always pan out. I'd like to live in a world where losing your job doesn't mean losing your health or your house, though. And the most direct way that I know of to help that along involves direct action (materially supporting people and supporting their next projects), organization (unions), and political action (like voting for candidates that support universal public healthcare in the US, and encouraging others to do the same).</p><p></p><p>In that strategy, "voting with my dollar" means supporting unionized workforces like Paizo's. <a href="https://unitedpaizoworkers.org/merch/" target="_blank">They got a merch shop</a>, so that's a direct start.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Know your enemy. </p><p></p><p>We made a world where corps do this, and we can make our world differently. But complaining about a corp doing corp stuff on a semi-obscure D&D message board isn't how you move the needle. Not that it's not fun and fine in it's own way, it's just not going to <em>change </em>anything.</p><p></p><p>Define your goal. Spell out the steps required to reach it. Don't believe the easy fantasy that Hasbro is exceptionally evil or incompetent. They're a product of their environment, and we can (and should!) change that environment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 9224730, member: 2067"] It's better if you don't put words in my mouth that I never said. What I said was [I]what are you going to do about it[/I]? Do you think angry fans are going to stop this round of layoffs? Or the next? How, exactly, does that work? Because the most likely scenario I see is if people buy fewer WotC products, that there will be MORE layoffs at WotC. Short-term, my idea is to support those who lost their jobs by following their public accounts and listening to what they say they need and whatever project they get involved with next. So far, it sounds like many of them are reasonably OK with the severance, so it's mostly about ensuring that they can do what they're good at in their next role, too. Medium-term, the idea is to unionize D&D. Paizo already has a union, so there's easy precedent. Long-term, the goal is clearly fully automated luxury space communism. I'm of the opinion that, even in a well-run industry where people get paid a living wage to work making a great game, layoffs are going to happen for the forseeable future, and sometimes happen in big ways. The world's a messy place. Investments don't always pan out. I'd like to live in a world where losing your job doesn't mean losing your health or your house, though. And the most direct way that I know of to help that along involves direct action (materially supporting people and supporting their next projects), organization (unions), and political action (like voting for candidates that support universal public healthcare in the US, and encouraging others to do the same). In that strategy, "voting with my dollar" means supporting unionized workforces like Paizo's. [URL='https://unitedpaizoworkers.org/merch/']They got a merch shop[/URL], so that's a direct start. Know your enemy. We made a world where corps do this, and we can make our world differently. But complaining about a corp doing corp stuff on a semi-obscure D&D message board isn't how you move the needle. Not that it's not fun and fine in it's own way, it's just not going to [I]change [/I]anything. Define your goal. Spell out the steps required to reach it. Don't believe the easy fantasy that Hasbro is exceptionally evil or incompetent. They're a product of their environment, and we can (and should!) change that environment. [/QUOTE]
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