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Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it.

It's about time this conversation entered the mainstream. It should go farther though — why shouldn't we all be able to buy Lambos or Teslas for the price of a Honda? Or, for that matter, Google shares for the price of GE?

Does no one understand modern monetary theory?

:clap: Just :clap: print : clap: the :clap: damn :clap: money.

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The video game industry takes advantage of young people who have dreams of making video games, and think that suffering through terribly paying jobs is the way to make that happen. That illusion gives cover to the industry to perpetuate terrible working conditions by abusing low paying employees and then having new young people replace them. There isn't accountability when companies do not pay a penalty for the treatment of their staff.

The video game industry isn’t alone in doing this. Basically every “glamor” industry exploits young people with a dream. Entertainment, sports, airlines. They all have young people working for less than minimum wage in hopes of a shot at the big time.

MMT itself does not yet understand an economy in an open system, which the US certainly is.

But then, your post was probably sarcastic.

Just printing money is a great way to end up with runaway inflation and a worthless currency.

I can't comment on the original post because it's dead, but I'm trying to figure out if OP is genuinely so ignorant of reality that they actually believe the things they wrote, or if they are a troll.

It's so ridiculous I'm almost forced to believe the latter.

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