Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job
&gt; For many kids who grew up with controllers in their hands, being a game developer is a dream job, so when it comes to talent, supply is higher than demand<p>This is basically the reason for low wages in quite a few &#x27;passion&#x27; driven industries. If a job is something enough people want to do, then talent is cheap and plentiful and companies can provide low wages and poor conditions that for every person who quits, ten more are lining up for the &#x27;opportunity&#x27;.<p>You can see this in all manner of arts or entertainment based fields, since there are far more people wanting to become artists&#x2F;musicians&#x2F;writers&#x2F;whatever than there is demand for their services. You can see it in journalism, where in many cases organisations will try and get work done for free, and will pay so little that living off said wages is virtually impossible in a major city if you don&#x27;t have a trust fund (though admittedly the huge increase in competition from the internet puts pressure there). And I even recall people saying it&#x27;s one reason teaching wages aren&#x27;t too high either.<p>Unionisation may help, but the only practical solution is for people to stop taking on terrible jobs because of some sense of &#x27;passion&#x27;, and to go where their skills are appreciated&#x2F;where they&#x27;re treated better&#x2F;fairly compensated.