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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8469345" data-attributes="member: 6998052">I've helped to attempt to form a couple unions, and I've been employed in union-breaking services, over the course of my career. Not an uncommon situation. Union-breaking is perfectly legal in the USA. Dozens of firms specialize in such services.You're wrong. The global economy has made union breaking on the industrial level extremely easy, and the loss of those jobs has made the labor pool large enough that non-industrial business has been affected. IT all boils down to the availability of labor.Absolutely. The owners are in fact investors; it's their money operating the company. Certainly they could move, there are many places with a significantly lower CoB, and its not as if they would have to move a factory. Its office work.There are countless people in the USA hoping to break into RPG writing. In the USA, unions are a small element of  the workforce, and the vast majority have never had anything to do with them.Again, look at Amazon, and similar, warehousing systems: truly awful working conditions that have been well-publicized, and which have successfully broken union-forming efforts. Yet they remain at full employee counts. The need to pay rent triumphs over all.The owners are investors in every sense of the word. Economics 101.Actually, you are.Companies exist for one reason: to generate a profit which is then paid out to the shareholders/investors. Again, economics 101. Your thinking is, as I've noted, the old union labor-centric way of thinking in which companies are evaluated from a workers PoV.A perfect example is the growing push to bring automation into the fast food, warehousing, and retail grocery industries. Companies are moving to reduce their employee populations.Very outdated thinking. Economic systems are built on hard numbers: if there are fewer jobs than workers, the employers call the shots. If there are more jobs open than there are workers, unions rule.Which brings us back to the specific topic at hand: as already noted by others in this thread, there are countless people in the USA dreaming of being an RPG writer. So Paiazo has the upper hand. Until that fact changes, nothing else will matter in the long run.</blockquote>

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