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'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid
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Corporations seldomly produce wealth for people or a nation. In practice they're merely a means of organizing the labor of many into a system that allows the benefits and money to be funneled to a small few.
And lack of any real competition gives them no reason to improve the lives of any one other than themselves.
I once worked for Apple and the pay was bad. I was approached by a small national company to do basically the same role and their base offer was almost 30% more.
A lot of my former colleagues we're still friends and catch up. We've all moved on but it's like we all share a trauma bond. It's an evil place internally, but they get away with it because of all the resumes flooding their inbox.
That's the same issue as people who want to be game developers. There's so many gifted intelligent people that want to do it, that companies just treat them like shit, overwork them, pay them nothing, then fire nearly all of them right before or after the game launches.
I used to want to be a game programmer since I first played fallout on a Pentium 133. But I came to realize that it's a shitty industry to be involved in