French video game developers staged the first-ever industry-wide strike this week, rallying against deteriorating working conditions and significant job cuts.
The global video game sector has emerged from a long “creative, craft” period to become “an industry like any other,” said Julien Pillot, an economist specialising in cultural industries.
Workers are “waking up with a hangover […] realising that they’ve become labourers just like anyone else,” he added.
We’re all laborers on this blessed day.